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Brazil, Portugal · 2021
2h 1m
Director Aly Muritiba
Starring Antonio Saboia, Pedro Fasanaro, Thomas Aquino, Laila Garin
Genre Drama
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40-year-old Daniel has been suspended from active police work and is under internal investigation for violence. When Sara, his online girlfriend, stops answering his texts, he decides to drive north in search of her. He shows Sara's picture around, but nobody seems to recognize the woman, until one man says he can put the two in touch under very specific conditions.
The New York Times by Beatrice Loayza
Muritiba understands that any portrait of masculinity that fixates too intensely on the cruelties and self-denials of machista culture are futile. Instead, he finds grace in stolen moments of tenderness.
Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Aly Muritiba’s film is always telling the viewer that death-ness and trans-ness bear the intimacy of Siamese sisters.
The Film Stage by Jared Mobarak
So many scenes unfold with static frames to give actors our undivided attention, letting them evolve emotionally without unnecessary cuts undermining authenticity.
The film comes alive in its second half, which deepens and complicates the story we thought we were watching, about a disgraced cop trying to run away from the violence that’s set to cost him his job and his reputation. For some, the tender empathy that runs through the film’s latter half may not be enough to offset its choice of sympathetic leading man.
Director and co-writer Aly Muritiba’s melodrama is slow — 29 minute-long PROLOGUE slow — formulaic, dated and obvious considering “The Crying Game” opened 30 years ago north of the equator. But tender performances might reward those patient enough to sit through its scenic, formulaic and dramatically-limited longueurs.
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