The films “Creed III” and Oscars shake up the cinema schedule

The continuation of the franchise “Creed” is the widest premiere this Thursday (2/3) in Brazilian cinemas, which will also receive two Oscar 2023 films: “Entre Mulheres”, which competes for best picture, and “Close”, in the dispute for best international film.

Most of the outputs come in a limited loop. And this includes the good thriller “Disappeared”, exemplary of the new “desktop film” aesthetic, and the retro horror “Two Witches – Diabolic Inheritance”. There are nine novelties in all. Check out each of them below.

| I BELIEVE III |

The third film in the series, born as a spin-off of “Rocky”, highlights the rivalry and confrontation between the title character (played by Michael B. Jordan) and the challenger Damien, played by Jonathan Majors (“Ant- Man and the Wasp: Quantummania”). A former friend who took a different path, Damien breaks out of prison believing Creed lived the life he deserved and intends to claim it all for himself by beating him in the ring.

In addition to starring in the franchise, Jordan also makes his directorial debut in this sequel, which again stars actresses Tessa Thompson and Phylicia Rashad, but lost to Sylvester Stallone. The veteran actor has decided to retire Rocky Balboa.

The screenplay is by Zach Baylin (“King Richard”) and Keenan Coogler (screenwriter of “Space Jam: The New Legacy” and brother of the director of the first “Creed”, Ryan Coogler), and the result surpasses the previous film, definitively released from the shadow of “Rocky”.

| AMONG WOMEN |

Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, Sarah Polley’s new drama (“Away from Her”) brings together a spectacular female cast to tell a story of rebellion. The plot takes place in 2010 in an isolated religious community, when submissive women decide to talk to each other about the abuses, including sexual ones, they suffer from their husbands and other men. Prevented from protesting because of their faith, they begin to question everything, torn between submitting or snubbing patriarchy, risking losing the only world they’ve ever known – even giving up, according to their beliefs, the possibility of go to Heaven.

The cast is led by Rooney Mara and Claire Foy, who curiously played different versions of the same character in the cinema, respectively in “Millennium: The Men Who Didn’t Love Women” (2011) and “Millennium: The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018), plus Jessie Buckley (“The Lost Daughter”), Judith Ivey (“New Amsterdam Hospital”), Ben Whishaw (“007: No Time to Die”) and Frances McDormand (“Nomadland”).

| CLOSE |

Nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film, the drama by award-winning Belgian director Lukas Dhont (“Girl”) chronicles the intense friendship between two 13-year-old boys, Leo and Remi, which is suddenly interrupted by Remi, when members of the class of their classmates begin to imply that the two are gay. Struggling to understand what happened, Leo watches friendship turn to hatred.

Winner of 38 international awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Mix Brasil Festival, the film is highly regarded for its tender approach to the theme of innocence lost and has an approval rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.

| MISSING |

Thematic continuation of “Searching…” (2018), the film uses the same aesthetic approach, but introduces new characters and a change in the dynamics of the situation: instead of being a father looking for his daughter (as in the original), now is a daughter who investigates the disappearance of her mother. Storm Reid (“Euphoria”) spends the weekend alone while her mother (Nia Long, “How Would It Be …?”) travels with her boyfriend. However, after noticing her mother’s disappearance and without the help of the police, the young woman decides to investigate what happened on her own and through her computer screen.

Made in a format known as “desktop horror” or “desktop film”, in which all the action takes place on a computer screen, “Searching…” was a critical and commercial success, with over 75 million box office gross and a 92% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The sequel was written and directed by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick, who served as editors on the 2018 film, and earned an approval rating of 87%.

| TWO WITCHES – THE EVIL LEGACY |

The standalone horror follows the passing of an evil legacy from a witch grandmother to her granddaughter, and the dire consequences for those who cross their paths. Inspired by the Italian classics of the genre, the first feature film by director Pierre Tsigaridis (who also wrote, produced, shot, edited and composed the soundtrack) was awarded in fantastic film festivals and reached 90% approval on Rotten Tomatoes , with accolades for its retro aesthetic and sinister mood.

| BEAUTIFUL PROMISES |

The French drama stars Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) as an outgoing mayor who faces a dilemma. The plot revolves around her struggle to save a neighborhood marked by unsanitary conditions and abusive tenants. But when she is offered to become a minister, her ambition puts all her promises in check. Praised for the star’s performance, as well as its social criticism, Thomas Kruithof’s film (“Mecânica das Sombras”) raises ethical questions that find an echo in Brazilian politics.

Clémence is the mayor of a small town closing with Yazid, his chief of staff, can a Clémence abandon her town, the people close to her and renounce her promises?

| HEART OF FATHER – SAINT JOSÉ |

The religious documentary tries to understand who Joseph of Nazareth, the father of Jesus, was. The Spanish director Andrés Garrigó specializes in such productions, having already shot “Fátima, The Last Mystery” (2017) and “Luz de Soledad” (2016 ) about the Spanish saint María Soledad Torres y Acosta, among other Catholic documentaries.

| RIO NEGRO |

Despite the title, Fernando Sousa’s documentary (“Intolerances of Faith”) is not about the Amazonian tributary, but about the sea of ​​people of African descent in the formation of the city of Rio de Janeiro. The work combines interviews and extensive archival material to present how the black population forged individual trajectories and community bonds to create a black Rio, around the “civilization” project of white elites.

| MURIBECA |

Awarded at the Cine-PE Festival, the documentary by Alcione Ferreira and Camilo Soares (“King Kong en Asunción”) tells the story of the disappearance of a neighborhood: the Muribeca Housing Complex (in Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Pernambuco), transformed into a real city ghost, and the reaction of residents to the physical death of a community still alive in memory and feelings.

Source: Terra

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