You know that story that cinemas are increasingly empty because they don’t have exits? There are 11 previews this week alone. There are many versions, but they are very poorly distributed. Most cinemas have screened the same handful of titles for weeks, overloading the alternative circuit, which is forced to change the schedule on a weekly basis due to the excess of productions received.
This week, for example, is dominated by limited previews outside the malls. Exceptions are the horror “Men – Faces do Medo” and the romantic comedies “A Ticket to Paradise”, with Julia Roberts and George Clooney, and “My Perfect Family”, with Rafael Infante and Isabelle Drummond.
See below everything that hits theaters this Thursday (8/9).
| MEN – FACES OF FEAR |
Actress Jessie Buckley, nominated for an Oscar 2022 for “The Lost Daughter”, is pursued by several men played by the same actor, Rory Kinnear (“007: No Time to Die”), in the third feature film directed by Alex Garland, director of “Ex Machina” (2014) and “Annihilation” (2018). In the film, she goes on vacation alone after the death of her ex-husband and is plagued by visions and men trying to arouse her guilt. To your amazement, they all seem to have the same face.
Although it is Garland’s first horror film, he has experience in the genre, having gained prominence as a screenwriter for “Extermination” (2002), a zombie film directed by Danny Boyle.
| TICKET TO PARADISE |
The romantic comedy is the fifth career collaboration of actors Julia Roberts and George Clooney and the first in which a couple have lived in 18 years – since “Twelve Men and Another Secret” (2004). In this on-screen reunion, they are divorced who hate each other, but make a truce in the name of a common goal: sabotaging the marriage of their daughter, who on impulse decided to marry a boy she had just met in Bali. That’s what happened to them 25 years ago and the experience makes them decide to prevent the worst from happening again.
The film is written and directed by Ol Parker (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”) and the cast also includes Kaitlyn Dever (“Outstanding”) as her daughter, as well as Billie Lourd (“American Horror Story”). Lucas Bravo (“Emily in Paris”) and Maxime Bouttier (“Unknown”).
| MY PERFECT FAMILY |
Farcical comedy revolves around an advertiser with a dilemma. Ashamed of his own family, he dates her dream woman, who agrees to become a bride only after meeting her relatives. But when she visits him at work, she swaps the actors in a margarine commercial for her boyfriend’s royal family, which gives her an idea: to hire them to pretend to be her parents. She couldn’t expect the margarine propaganda family to be worse than her real relatives. Directed by Felipe Joffily (“Muita Calma Nessa Hora”), it features Rafael Infante (“Vai que Cola”) and Isabelle Drummond (“Turma da Mônica: Lições”) as the central couple.
| THE FIGHT OF A LIFE |
The true story of a Holocaust survivor, the drama of veteran director Barry Levinson (“Raiman”) follows Harry Haft, who was spared the gas chambers for entertaining the Nazis by winning fights against other Jews. At the end of the war, he began his boxing career in the United States. Obsessed with memories and guilt for surviving, he struggles to face boxing legend Rocky Marciano, hoping to draw public attention to his story and reconnect with his first and great love, from whom he was separated during the war.
The cast features Ben Foster (“At All Costs”) as the protagonist, as well as Billy Magnussen (“Game Night”) and Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”).
| AMIRA |
The title Amira is a 17-year-old girl, conceived with the smuggled semen of her father Nawar, imprisoned for being a hero of the Palestinian cause. Although her relationship with her father has been limited to visits to prison, she admires him and her absence from her life is compensated for by the love and affection of those around her. But when another attempt to conceive a child reveals Nawar’s infertility, Amira’s world is turned upside down. Who is she but the hero’s daughter? But what if she wasn’t?
The drama is the third feature film directed by Mohamed Diab, an award-winning Egyptian director who became known to the general public as the director of Marvel’s “Moon Knight”.
| THE NEXT STEP |
French director Cédric Klapisch, of “The Spanish Hostel” (2005) and its sequels, films the drama of a promising classical music dancer, who is injured in a performance after witnessing her boyfriend’s betrayal. Although experts say that she will never be able to dance again, the young woman struggles to recover, trying to reinvent herself as an artist in the world of contemporary dance.
| TRUMBLE TRAIN – THE MOVIE |
The Brazilian animation, based on the Cartoon Network series of the same name, follows Gajah, a memoryless elephant who, after becoming famous, ends up drifting away from his old traveling companions on the Trumpet Trem. The stardom is short lived, as he soon becomes the prime suspect in mysterious kidnappings. Unraveling the mystery will only be possible with the help of pre-famous friends: a group of stubborn termites and Duda, an excited and innocent vegetarian anteater. Directed by Zé Brandão, creator of the characters and producer of “O Irmão do Jorel”.
| THE TERRITORY |
The documentary winner of the Audience Award and the Special Jury Award at this year’s Sundance Festival international competition is a Brazilian and American co-production (by director Darren Aronofsky, from “Noé”), directed by the American Alex Pritz, who portrays the struggle of the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people against farmers and miners who invade their land, a protected area in the Amazon rainforest, encouraged by the rhetoric of Jair Bolsonaro.
Highly praised by foreign critics, the film has a 97% approval rating on the Rotten Tomatoes website and is considered one of the best documentaries of the decade. Acquired by National Geographic, it is a great candidate for the 2023 awards.
| 5 HOUSES |
Winner of Cine Ceará, Bruno Gularte Barreto’s film tells the story of 5 houses in a small town in the far south of Brazil. Each of them has their characters, but they cross paths: an old teacher struggling to keep the house and her 36 cats, a young man abused because he is gay, a nun transferred from the school who ruled with an iron fist for decades, an old foreman on a haunted farm and a boy whose parents died when he was still a child and who is now the director who returns to find his childhood memories and find these people.
| THAT I HAVE NEVER LOST |
The documentary celebrates the career of singer Alzira Espíndola del Mato Grosso, aka Alzira E, who began composing with her brothers, Geraldo and Tetê Espíndola. In the 1980s she emigrated to Sao Paulo where she built a solid career as an instrumentalist and composer with partners such as Itamar Assumpção and Ney Matogrosso. Still active at 65, Alzira E currently leads a rock band.
| BIG BROTHER – THE DAY THAT LAST 21 YEARS 2 |
Continuation of “O Dia que Durou 21 anos”, the documentary historically records the participation of the military government of Brazil, together with the CIA and the US State Department, in the military coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende in Chile. With unpublished confidential documentation and various testimonies, the film shows the backstage of 11 September 1973, which began 17 years of the bloody dictatorship of General Pinochet.
Source: Terra
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