Although very low-profile and not as highlighted as some colleagues, Marcelo Gomes is certainly one of my favorite Brazilian directors. His fiction films are excellent: "Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus" is a masterpiece which I hope will still be worldwide properly acclaimed; and I have also watched "Joaquim" and "Era uma Vez Eu, Verônica", which are also very good. Well, "Estou me guardando para quando o carnaval chegar", differently from these film I mentioned, is a documentary. Marcelo Gomes contrasts his childhood experience traveling with his father in Brazilian Northeastern hinterlands with nowadays' reality: relatively small-size town Toritama, which used to focus on agriculture and cattle and was very quiet, turned to produce 20% of all jeans Brazil makes! With a fabulous and smart cinematography, a good text (about dreams and time), great testimonies and a particularly amazing character (Léo, the happy and contradictory wannabe prophet), this documentary explores labor reality, the neo-liberal workaholic ethos, and the unprecedented collective compulsion for stopping that blue-jeans "Modern Times" only during carnival, when almost the entire population do all efforts to travel to the beach.