“Particularly desert”, by Aly Muritiba.
Brazilian Aly Muritiba, after the known For I died dear Y Ferrugemreturns to focus on toxic masculinity in this third film that earned him the role as his country’s representative, though unlucky to be nominated, at the last Oscars.
The filmmaker now focuses on the deconstruction of the archetypal Brazilian macho by telling the story of Daniel, a policeman who is separated from the force for an act of violence against a young candidate.
“Particularly desert”, by Aly Muritiba.
The suspended agent spends his gray days in the south of Brazil caring for his ailing former military father, fighting with his lesbian sister, on a temporary job as a bowling alley patov and engaging in chat with Sara, where he falls in love as if he were a teenager even living on the other side of the country.
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“Particularly desert”, by Aly Muritiba.
Sara stops responding after receiving a photo of the police officer, so Daniel has no other idea but to travel north with a daunting mission to find Sara, who he knows nothing but the rural town in which he lives and has profile picture on WhatsApp as the only recognition tool.
After several failed attempts, a young man assures him that Sara will dance in a nearby bowling alley and a very short encounter will take place, but not much cinematographically virtuoso for that, from which he manages to escape. To Sara’s dismay, Muritiba changed. private desert in a cinematographic diptych, with little narrative twist.
The film changes perspective to focus now on Sara’s day-to-day activities and the filmmaker highlights the contrast between the city and the rural aridity of northern Brazil, between oppressive, patriarchal and police reality. of Daniel and the possibility of having a completely different life with Sara, still trapped within the codes of evangelism that prevail in the town.
The two have in common that they feel confined and isolated in a society where they still can’t find their places, without knowing whether that space will be shared or not.
Muritba bet on the idea of plurality at a time when love and understanding seemed to be a political issue in Brazil. The variation is also represented on screen by escaping the famous Rio de Janeiro as a setting, though it sounds at some point as a possible destination in finding that place in the world.
The filmmaker narrated the stories of Daniel and Sara as if they had never been told before, even though it was tiring to see with the naked eye where a film would go where its protagonists were barely able to wander because of lust.
Resorts in Muritiba Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler’s eighties classic, twice without blushing in the climactic moments of grain of the desertAnd, as compelling as those hyperbolic scenes are, the romance seems certain to fail when it’s overly cerebral and the heart takes a backseat.
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Qualifications: regular
Drama. Brazil, 2021, 121 ‘. From: Aly Muritiba. may: Luthero Almeida, Pedro Fasanaro, Antonio Saboia.
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Source: Clarin