Co-written and directed by Karim Aïnouz. Prompted by Beatrice Loayza making it a Critic's Pick at the New York Times.
Well it's quite bad. The plot is very cliched: a bad boy (bad due to his lack of parenting, bad signalled by his darker skin) finds himself in the care of a couple who run a love motel. She's randy and sick of her abusive husband while he needs a handyman who can get the AC going again. It's a love triangle made in Brazil! Everything is saturated in unsexy sex, so much so that at times it could have been a comedy. The cinematography tries to be edgy. Loads of symbology for the semioticians to work out.
Ben Kenigsberg saw it at Cannes in 2024. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). "It is not a good movie ... But getting your eyeballs scorched for two hours counts for something."
