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Four Brazilian LGBTQ Films to Watch Between Olympic Events
With the Olympics placing Rio de Janeiro front and center in the international cultural conversation, we at NBC OUT would be remiss not to recognize Brazil’s contributions beyond athletics. In addition to the country's indisputable impact on music and dance, it’s essential to note Brazil produces some of the finest LGBTQ films in the contemporary queer canon.
With its vibrant multiculturalism and diversity, Brazil is abode to the massive annual Pride parades in Rio and São Paulo, as well as the largest celebration of gender-bending openness and expression with Carnaval. This selection of films, from recent past and present, exemplifies Brazil’s vow to sharing LGBTQ stories with the world and gives Brazilians something to feel proud of on top of their Olympic hospitality.
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"The Way He Looks"
This sweet and singular coming-of-age gem about Leo -- a blind high educational facility boy yearning for uniqueness and romance -- surfaced in 2014 and charmed crowds while winning numerous Jury and Audience Awards on the festival circuit, including Berlinale’s Teddy. When cute new student Gabriel enters their high educational facility class, b
‘Baby’ Review: Lessons in Survival for a Resilient Homosexual Teen in a Gritty and Tender Brazilian Drama
As Baby opens, the title character, whose given name is Wellington, has a taste of independence for the first period in nearly two years. He’s ending his stint in a youth detention center, a place with the grim industrial aura of a high-security prison — but also one where there are occasional breaks for drum-and-brass musical performances. Freedom presents particular challenges for Wellington, who discovers upon return to his working-class São Paulo neighborhood that his parents have left the town. There’s no forwarding handle. Stepping into the void is a man more than twice his age, offering a confusing tangle of care and possessiveness as lover, mentor, business partner and paternal protector.
Exploring the twisty, aching complexities of the men’s relationship and the demimonde they inhabit, writer-director Marcelo Caetano (Body Electric), who served as casting director on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Bacurau and Aquarius, has drawn compelling performances from his two leads. He imbues the story with a documentary immediacy, parti
The sweet and sunny Brazilian romance “The Way He Looks” is out writer/director Daniel Ribeiro’s feature-length version of his excellent 2010 brief “Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho” (“I Don’t Want to Go Back Alone”). This expanded version, starring the matching cast as the short, is one of those scarce, happy cases where the feature motion picture improves upon the short.
The film, which is Brazil’s Oscar submission for Top Foreign Language Production, opens Nov. 7 at Ritz Theaters.
In this engaging coming-of-age story, Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) is a blind teen whose BFF, Giovana (Tess Amorim), assists him in school and walks him place. When Gabriel (Fabio Audi) joins their class, he befriends Leo and Gi, as she’s called. When a class assignment forces the guys to labor together, they rapidly form an intimate bond, causing Gi to become jealous.
What makes “The Way He Looks” so magical is that Ribeiro chronicles how the two male teens fall in love. The teens never discuss their emotions, but their feelings are all tactile. When Gabriel plants a touch on Leo, or the two friends shower together during an overnight class trip, the unspoken attraction hangs in the air.
Ribeiro met with PGN
Review: Baby
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film profile], Brazilian director Marcelo Caetano’s decidedly mature story of queer love, friendship and more between an 18-year-old man and his 42-year-old father-figure-cum-lover in today’s São Paulo. The screenplay by Caetano and Gabriel Domingues draws from the aesthetic of a sort of gay social realism to paint a rich landscape lying at the crossroads between the two men, with the film having just enjoyed its premiere in Cannes’ Critics’ Week.
After spending two years in a juvenile detention centre, Wellington (João Pedro Mariano) emerges as an grown-up, his alcoholic policeman father having left the capital with his mother. As he searches for his mother, he’s taken in by the escort Ronaldo (Ricardo Teodoro), who takes a liking to the younger man both personally and professionally. Acting in both a