The program for this Thursday (2/9) is quite varied, from award-winning drama to Brazilian comedy, from popular horror to children’s animation. These are previews that should be boosted by the Cinema Week promotion, which has a single price of R$ 10 for all films shown in 2D on the Cinépolis, UCI, Cinemark, Cinesystem, Moviecom and other networks. The promotion is valid until Tuesday (14/2).
See below for all the movies that hit screens during the promotion.
| PEARL |
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Director Ti West reunites with actress Mia Goth in this prologue to ‘X’. The plot accompanies the youth of the old psychopath from the previous film, who sees her dreams of becoming a movie star suffocated by the lonely life on the family farm. This resentment begins their bloody saga.
Mia Goth herself signs the story, in collaboration with the director. It’s worth pointing out that the actress had lived through both leading lady Maxine and Pearl on ‘X’. But she was unrecognizable as the serial killer, under many layers of prosthetic makeup to look like a woman in her 90s.
Martin Scorsese also praised the work, which had an acclaimed world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and achieved a 91% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
| UP – THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE |
The historical drama features the murder that led to tougher anti-racism laws in the United States and Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for the death of her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till. In 1955, Emmett was lynched and killed while visiting his cousins in Mississippi for eyeing a white woman.
Director Chinonye Chukwu’s (“Clemency”) film won 14 critics’ awards and many consider it unfair that actress Danielle Deadwyler, who plays Mamie, was not nominated for an Oscar, especially as she is competing for the BAFTA (the British Oscar) for American film.
| PERLIMPI |
The new animation from director Alê Abreu, nominated for an Oscar in 2016 for “The Boy and the World”, follows two secret agents sent by rival kingdoms to an enchanted forest. Once there, they discover that they have the same mission: to save the Perlimp, creatures capable of preserving the forest from the terrible giants that surround them. Thus, they decide to forget their rivalry and join forces to ensure the survival of the mysterious creatures, and in the process finally manage to find a way to peace between their kingdoms.
The film had its world premiere at the Annecy Festival, considered the “Cannes of animation”, but out of competition – after Alê Abreu won this festival in 2014, precisely for “O Menino eo Mundo”. The voice cast includes Giulia Benite (Mônica from the films “Turma da Mônica”), Stênio Garcia (“Me Tira da Mira”) and the voice actor Lorenzo Tarantelli.
| TO DISAPPEAR! |
The Brazilian comedy highlights actresses Gloria Pires and Maisa as mother and daughter. After seven years of battling her shopping addiction, Gloria’s character leads a support group for compulsive shoppers, is successful as a personal organizer, and is starting a new romance with Marcos Pasquim’s character (“Malhação” ). Nothing about her seems to be able to shake her, until she receives the news that her only daughter (the role of Moisa) intends to leave home to study abroad and everything that seemed overcome returns with force.
The cast also includes Malu Valle, Wagner Santisteban, Polly Marinho, Carol Bresolin and Rodrigo Fagundes. And it is precisely this nucleus of compulsive shoppers that fuels the main lines of the feature film directed by Hsu Chien (“Who Will Stay With Mário?”).
| TITANIC |
One of the highest-grossing films of all time returns to theaters in a 3D re-release. Directed by James Cameron, the love story amid one of the most notorious disasters in history won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, as well as turning Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet into global idols. The film’s success at the box office was surpassed only by Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’.
| MY FATHER’S STORIES |
The new French comedy that brings together director Jean-Pierre Améris and actor Benoît Poelvoorde after “Let a family” (2015) and “Anonymous romantics” (2010) is a little more dramatic than usual. The story takes place in the 1960s and follows an 11-year-old girl who idolizes her father and his crazy war stories. Until the day his father recruits him for a crucial mission for the future of France: to assassinate President Charles De Gaulle.
| THE BOY AND THE TIGER |
The children’s film follows a little Indian orphan who rescues a tiger cub from vicious hunters and together they embark on an adventure to find a safe home. But for this they will have to flee from hunters determined to win back the puppy, and they will have to survive the challenges of nature, while developing a strong bond of trust and affection.
Interestingly, before making this film, Argentine director Brando Quilici worked on another feature film with a similar theme – “The Boy and the Bear”, set in Canada.
| SPOOPPO |
The Brazilian children’s comedy follows a teenage clown who lives with her family in a traveling circus. Her life changes drastically when her parents decide to quit the circus and try life in a nearby town. Always wearing the typical clown costumes, the family faces, with humor and joy, a series of difficulties in adapting to this new life. But as her parents struggle to adjust to the city, Julieta makes new friends and stages a circus show in the neighborhood, bringing the circus tradition to the urban space to melt some cold hearts.
Newcomer Luis Antônio Igreja’s film was shot in Nova Friburgo, using local theater groups to form the supporting cast, which highlights Letícia Pedro, Luigi Montez and musician André Abujamra.
| OFFERING TO THE DEVIL |
Terror accompanies the son of a funeral home who returns home with his pregnant wife. But once there, an ancient evil with sinister plans awaits them. Within its fairly standard story with a few generic scares, the film manages to differentiate itself by approaching demonic possession from a Jewish culture perspective. Directed by Oliver Park, who makes his feature film debut after making horror shorts.
| SYMPHONY OF AN ORDINARY MAN |
Award-winning José Joffily’s new documentary (“Who Killed Pixote?”) focuses on Ambassador José Maurício Bustani, the first director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), who sought to prevent the destruction of the Iraq and, under pressure from the Americans, was fired. The film denounces that, 18 years later, similar situations are being repeated behind the scenes of multilateral organizations.
Source: Terra
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