brazilian
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Futuro Beach
Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motorbikers racing across the sand dunes and when they reach the end of the beach discard their bikes and clothes and run off into the high rolling waves. They soon get caught in riptides and despite…
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The Way He Looks
The lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class for the first time. Suddenly the cosy closeness of the two old friends is threatened when Giovana discovers that the newcomer will not be her…
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Tattoo (aka Tatuagem)
In 1978 on the outskirts of Recife, a city in the north of Brazil, a subversive decadent theatre troupe are rehearsing one of their most outrageous shows as the last Military Dictatorship starts to crumble. The star is Paulette a self-absorbed over-the-top drag queen and she and the motley cast perform everything from homoerotic skits (leaving…
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From Beginning to End
There is good taste, and then there is incest. It’s surprising that I can sit and watch a lot of suspect and even deviant behaviour amongst (consenting) adults on the silver screen, but this is one topic that I feel is just a tad too icky even for me. Especially when it comes in the…
