Movies

beautiful, bitter, useful. a film about relations and choices. delicate poetry and good performances. not comfortable but touching for its honesty, for the landscapes, for the dialogs and for the grace of silence. a film about love and its decision, about guilt feelings and about gestures who are only exercise to know happiness. about the responsibility. and about the past who remains the skin of present. short- a beautiful film. not in ordinary manner but that detail defines it. because it is the work of an admirable director who use the right nuances for a story who might be almost cruel. a gentle speech about the sense of life.

One more hreat film by Katim Aïnouz, with another great performance by Wagner Moura. While that was a weird situation for a love flourish, the various beach or sex scenes are strong and bright, not only well shot but also visceral. The change from Futuro beach in Fortaleza to Germany surprises, but not as much as what we know in the third part. The final message from a brother to another is moving. The LGBT drama film is a true co-production, filmed both in Brazil and Germany, with actors from both countries and spoken in Portuguese and also in German.

Actually, this movie does not bring anything new to the Brazilian cinema. I found its story totally lame. What about this synopsis after all? And it solely relies on the (already-way-too-mainstream) shocking sexually-appealing feature. Also, German seems like the easiest language to be learned by a regular Brazilian, as the confusing time line does not allow to understand how long the main character spends on Germany. Same for his young brother, for whom the language-learning process has - again - a lame explanation.Score is 3 out of 10 just for the few nice shots, even though the slowness of this movie is definitely boring.