The singer’s acclaimed biopic hits the big screen this Thursday (14), alongside films like “Crimes of the Future”
The production on the life and career of Elvis Presley is the main release of the week in Brazilian cinemas. One of the most acclaimed films of the last Cannes Film Festival, comes with the endorsement of the singer’s daughter and grandchildren, who have given several exciting testimonies on the production.
New additions also include “Crimes of the Future”, the return to terror of veteran director David Cronenberg – who left cinema at Cannes -, two European films and two national productions. Check out below for more information and trailers of all titles playing this Thursday (7/14).
| ELVIS |
The biopic King of Rock, directed by Baz Luhrmann (“The Great Gatsby”), has everything fans could wish for, covering every stage of the singer in an exquisite and detailed recreation. Additionally, Luhrmann connects the extremes, finding in the awakening of boy Elvis Presley’s interest in musical performance and fervent Black Shepherd services the inspiration for his sexual trance in early shows and the gospel repertoire of the end of his career.
Many of the scenes reflect the hysteria aroused by his performances, closely followed by the conservative backlash that tried to censor him. To embody the frenzy, Austin Butler (“Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood”) transforms, perfectly displaying the singer’s swashbuckling and redneck accent. More than that: because the story arc is ambitious, he needs to rapidly evolve on screen, from young rocker in the mid-1950s to mature man to his triumphant return in 1968 until he enters the final stage of his career, in the mega show of the 1950s 1970. To top it off, his performance is so complete that, instead of dubbing, the actor sings the songs he presents in the film.
“Elvis” also highlights the actor Tom Hanks (“Finch”) quite transformed in the role of Colonel Tom Parker, manager of the King of Rock, who tells the story, as well as Olivia DeJonge (the Ellie of the series “The Society “) in the role of Priscilla, the singer’s wife, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Candy from” The Deuce “) as Gladys, Elvis’s mother.
| CRIMES OF THE FUTURE |
The bizarre science fiction comes without a translated title, but with exaggerated expectations as it marks director David Cronenberg’s return to the biological horrors of his early career. In fact, it is so reminiscent of this stage of the director, that even the effects seem vintage, without any computerized treatment.
Focused on biological mutations and body art performances, the film draws more attention for its subversive ideas – phrases like “surgery is the new sex” – and for its decadent setting, in a future where everything looks old – without computers or cell phones. The plot is as meaningless as that of “Videodrome” (1983) and with unresolved outstanding issues.
In this future where technology seems alien, people spontaneously mutate, with the emergence of new internal organs. The protagonist, played by Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”), is a performer known for transforming his body into a show, extracting, with the help of his wife (Léa Seydoux, from “007 – No Time to Die”), his own mutations before an ecstatic audience.
He is also a volunteer assistant to a bureaucratic organization created to catalog the emergence of new organs – and his unique biology delights the two responsible for this process, played by Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”) and Don McKellar (“Essay Against Blindness). “). As if that weren’t enough, he is still secretly a police informant, on the hunt for pro-mutation revolutionaries, determined to use the artist’s notoriety to shed light on the next stage of human evolution.
| TRALALA |
The French musical comedy follows Tralala, a singer from the streets of Paris who takes seriously the message “Above all, don’t be yourself”, left by a young stranger. When a 60-year-old woman mistakes him for her son who disappeared 20 years ago in the United States, she decides to take on her role.
The film is directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu and marks the duo’s third collaboration with Mathieu Amalric. The precedent dates back to nine years ago, in “Love is a Perfect Crime”, which also saw Maïwenn in the cast. In addition to them, the production includes Mélanie Thierry (“The Zero Theorem”), Denis Lavant (“Holy Motors”) and Josiane Balasko (“It’s all included!”).
| FLAMMABLE GIRL |
Elisa Mishto’s first film, the German drama revolves around a spoiled girl (Natalia Belitski, from the “Perfume” series) who follows two rules: always wear gloves and never do anything. She doesn’t work, she doesn’t study, she has no friends. It doesn’t even matter. And this nihilism also makes her not worry about others, committing dangerous acts, which lead her to be detained and monitored medically. During the treatment, a nurse her age, mother of a child, decides to face her. But she, at the same time, she is influenced by it, in a contact that brings the two to the limits of their respective worlds.
| RIO DE JANEIRO OF HO CHI MINH |
The grandson of a sailor who survived the Whip Rebellion tries to turn the story he heard as a child from his grandfather into a documentary. In the 1910s, the old man was friends with Ho Chi Minh, took the future Vietnamese leader to Rio de Janeiro and introduced him to socialism. That friendship changed the history of the twentieth century.
It sounds too crazy to be true. But the unifier of Vietnam had a forced stay in Brazil for a few months and was struck by the story of northeastern black José Leandro da Silva, known as Pernambuco, a union leader active during the maritime strike. So much so that he wrote a text entitled Solidarity of classes, inspired by the Brazilian revolt, in which he spoke of racism and proletarian brotherhood.
The memory of this little-known historical passage marks the directorial debut of screenwriter and producer Cláudia Mattos (“180 Graus”).
| RUA GUAICURUS |
Title Street is located in the center of Belo Horizonte and has been one of the largest red light districts in Brazil since the 1950s. There are more than 25 hotels in the region, with around 3,000 prostitutes. Director Joao Borges has been granted permission to follow the routine of one of these addresses, documenting the daily lives of professionals in situations that evoke real-life dramas and even comedies.
Source: Terra
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