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Brazil, Canada · 2015
1h 36m
Director Pedro Morelli
Starring Gael García Bernal, Alison Pill, Mariana Ximenes, Jason Priestley
Genre Animation, Comedy, Drama
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A bizarre multi-dimensional connection between comic book artist Emma, novelist Michelle, and film director Edward allows them to each control the storyline of another person in the trio. The connection between them leads to all sorts of surreal, otherwise-impossible scenarios.
There is an interesting film buried in Zoom, and it’s one to seek out if you’re a fan of more daring visual choices in film. It’s just a shame that the script couldn’t have matched the direction and visuals in its intriguing approach to world building.
Director Pedro Morelli's neon-and-grime aesthetic and a solid cast of mostly Canadian character actors (including a campy, animated Don McKellar and a creepy Michael Eklund) are the grounding factors.
RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire
A rather terrible comedy-satire, bears the DNA of at least two strains of terrible films.
Morelli and tyro scribe Matt Hansen unpack this Charlie Kaufman-lite premise with more cleverness than wit, struggling particularly to find the right racy tone for various erotic interludes — but the part-toon pic’s neatly collapsing structure and pop-art flourishes ensure it’s never dull.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
There's no way for all this to resolve that isn't fairly absurd. But Morelli's light touch generally keeps the goofiness from becoming tiresome, especially given the help of some quirktronica compositions by Kid Koala on the soundtrack.
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
Is there a point to all these cheeky meta-shenanigans? Not really. Yet it’s hard not to share Morelli’s delight in the possibilities of an impossible story structure, and if the final work feels inevitably uneven, that’s less a flaw than a feature — a testament to the visual and tonal distinctiveness of the movie’s individual parts.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Mr. Morelli mixes live-action and animated scenes to good effect. He doesn’t have time to give his characters depth, but there’s pleasure in figuring out how they connect and pondering the movie’s modest themes.
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