“Love Goes Around” and it could take us to Notting Hill

Passionate about romantic comedies, director Marcos Bernstein says there are some references to the genre in his new feature film

when interviewed Cleo for the Stageat the launch of Love transformsthe reporter quoted a scene from the film Mark Bernstein. A rather bad dialogue in which Igor Angelkorte he taunts Cleo at the bar, as if he wants to win her over. The viewer knows what Igor has not yet admitted to himself, but he is in love with her. Cleo simply didn’t remember the scene. How? “The movie was made in 2016, six years ago and I haven’t seen the final cut yet,” she explained. “But if that’s the scene I’m thinking about, it’s quite interesting. We always adjust the text to make it more natural, but that’s what I always say. Marcos writes well and we just have to not screw it up.”

Bernstein himself makes his assessment of the scene. “I like to mix genres, it’s something that is at the heart of my work. I always look for simplicity, objectivity, but I think this mix adds sophistication. When you have actors like Cleo and Igor, it’s even better.” Bernstein co-wrote with João Emanuel Carneiro the screenplay of one of the great films of Brazilian cinema – Central do Brazilin Walter Sallessince 1998, it has ranked 11th in the top 100 of little hugs. As a director, sum Cross the roadthe adaptation of My orange tree and now Love transforms. The journalist does not hesitate to recall his telenovela Pride and Passion, on Globo, at 18:00. It was an adaptation of Jane Austen.

Anyone who has seen it will not forget Bernstein’s audacity. Scenes completely sung and danced, as if the soap opera were, right?, a musical. An even greater audacity: the gay kiss. This has always been a soap opera within Globo soap operas. Beija-não-beija, what will be the audience’s reaction? Bernstein went to the station’s director of drama – at the time, Silvio de Abreu. He didn’t object, but was succinct: “Be classy.” Bernstein went, so much so that the scene aired without causing a scandal. The assimilated public. “The important thing is the truthfulness of the characters, respect for diversity”.

Fernando Montenegro and the girl Alice are on the air with a spot that talks about respect as a tool for human and social improvement. Bernstein directed his first feature film, Cross the road. The nosy neighbor who is a police informant. Your distrust of your neighbor. Echoes of the classic Indiscreet windowin Alfred Hitchcock, since 1954. Working with actors is one of the graces – one of the privileges – of this function, director. In the Central do BrazilFernanda was already there, and Marilia PeraAnd Brass Bastosand a bunch of proven talent, but there was the boy… Vinicio Oliveira. In the My orange treeanother boy, Joao Guilherme Avilacollaborated with Jose de Abreu. The art of cinema is about harmonizing disparate elements to best serve the story being told.

Is Bernstein planning to return to soap operas? “Pride and Passion it was right on time and left me a window open, but there are no plans. I am currently finishing the series Barbarian Times, Act 1 – Revenge Therapywith Claudia Abreu And Julia Lemmerzexpected to debut in 2023.”

Recipe

The director and screenwriter gives his recipe for starters. “Making films has always been difficult in Brazil, but conditions have evolved since I started.” What is necessary for those who write and direct? “I think, mostly, it’s the look at life. She’s the best writer, the best storyteller there is.” What’s challenging about a project like Love transforms? “She’s working with genre codes, but always trying to go a little bit further, trying to put something personal into what might just be formulas.”

Love transforms began to be born during a trip by Bernstein to Africa, to make a documentary on the subject Pierre Verger. “Lula Buarque was the director and it was in a phase where she always listened to the same music, I will give her all the love I havefur Marvin Gaye. The song tells of an isolated man who maintains his sanity by writing love letters to his beloved. An idea started to form in my head. What would happen if he, upon returning home, no longer had his beloved of him. This is how Igor was born, who went to Doctors Without Bordershe exchanged letters with the woman he loved, and when he returned he found that she had married another.”

But what about the love letters she’s received? “That’s how the story of Igor’s involvement with the character of his beloved’s sister Cleo began to emerge.” Bernstein had references in Love transforms? “I like romantic comedies and I have my preferences. If my apartment could talkby Billy Wilder, and also, more recently, films written by Richard Curtis. Four weddings and a funeral, A place called Nothing Hill. They are “dramedia”, with figures with which the viewer can identify with humanity. It was what I was looking for/we were looking for Love transforms.”

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Camila

Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.