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Futuro Beach
2014
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4.4
This is a poetic approach, to be sure, but it is entirely nonchalant and unstudied; and it extends to the understated beauty of the visuals, where the ..
Rogerebert
4.0
Impatient viewers may feel the film could have lost 10 or 20 minutes of exquisitely composed shots where people just walk or drive around landscapes, ..
The Guardian
2.5
Futuro Beach masks depleted drama under a progression of long takes, various music cues, and a three chapter structure that grows successively tedious ..
3.5
Divided into three chapters, this elliptical gay romance by the Brazilian writer and director Karim Ainouz offers much to admire but struggles to enga ..
The New York Times
2.0
A semblance of reflection finally appears in the third and final chapter as Donato is confronted by his estranged younger brother, Ayrton (Jesuita Bar ..
3.8
Futuro Beach is part of a welcome wave of European and South American films that center on gay characters, yet deal with universal themes and offer a ..
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
Karim Ainouzs film is a beautifully shot, melancholy meditation on identity, loneliness and love, its mood lingering long after the credits.
2.0
This romance in chapters is directed by Karim Ainouz with sensitivity and well acted, particularly by Wagner Moura as Donato.
The Times
4.0
You could also question whether this is simply a Brazilian film too.
Flim List
3.5
Karim Ainouzs film is, despite its initially strong narrative, more concerned with moods and the energy of emotions than straightforward storytelling.
Eye For Film
3.0
Anouz doesnt seem to be aware that his latest offering works best as a baroque postcard about the fragile nature of love and the risks well take just ..
Cine Vue
4.0
To convey these ideas, the actors deliver staggeringly transparent performances that require deeply honest interaction between them.
Contact Music
2.5
There are narrative filmmakers, there are avant garde filmmakers, and then there are narrative filmmakers who are really avant garde filmmakers in dis ..
The Dissolve
3.1
But like its characters, this is a movie let adrift and which doesnt quite articulate the themes Ainouz grapples with as adroitly as he might have lik ..
Movie Mezzanine
4.0
Employing outstanding cinematography throughout the film, director Karim Ainouzs background in visual arts is revealed to the audience. Artistic shoot ..
Gay Essential
3.0
But if you cant find happiness either on a beautiful but frequently lethal beach or a bustling but grim Berlin, where can you
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