Gabriel Mascaro’s feature is set in the Amazon and begins when the government transfers seniors to a housing colony in which they will ‘enjoy’ its last years of life
This Thursday (28) opens in Brazilian theaters the film The Last Azul, by Pernambuco Gabriel Mascaro, one of the exponents of the new generation of Brazilian filmmakers. Known from the public by films such as Boi Neon (2015), Mascaro won one of the biggest awards of the Berlin Festival, the Silver Bear, in February this year:
” It was a great joy to be able to debut at Berlinale, a festival that consecrated Brazilian culture with Central Brazil and Elite Squad, and we get there with the last blue and leave with the critical award, a silver bear, was very beautiful and now we will finally find the Brazilian audiences with very hot and very energy ”, celebrates Mascaro.
The plot is situated in and begins when the government transfers elderly to a housing colony in which they will “enjoy” its last years of life. Before the compulsory exile, Tereza, a 77 -year -old woman, embarks on a journey to fulfill her last wish and is surprised, halfway, by a mysterious sailor, played by.
” Yeah, we wanted to make a movie about this feminine elderly body that feels desire. A body that pulsates in the present and that resignifies life at 77. I needed this bold tonic, so the movie starts a little dystopian and comes at a fantastic and surreal moment. We play with the genre like a maturation discovery, right? The main character goes through a journey of transformation, and we usually often associate the transformations with young people, right? But not here! We are talking about an elderly woman, with all energy, with all the strength and, above all, with the desire to dream, ” says Mascaro.
The protagonist is lived on the screen by actress Denise Weinberg: ” Old age is not a sad thing, if you know how to get older, it is a wisdom. Also grow old doing what I like is wonderful. ”
For Denise, who recently won the best actress award for the film at the Guadalajara Festival in Mexico, the work takes the viewer to Utopia: ” Being an artist, I’m already utopian by nature, so when this material fell into my hand, and I met Gabriel, I saw it soon that I was played: I want to make this movie ‘.’
Embark on the Amazon rainforest, where the movie was shot, was also a new experience for her. ” I met an Amazon with beautiful and hallucinating landscapes; They are breath in the soul, but there is also a very strong concrete in the sense of being in that place and facing aging as something that is difficult, but it can be good when we have maturity to face. ‘
For the teacher and researcher Ivana Bentes, the last blue surprises in talking about delicate themes such as ethaismo, but also for aesthetic exquisite.
” Gabriel Mascaro for me is the synthesis of the new national cinema, which creates an interest beyond Brazil, either in aesthetic sophistication or for relevant, important, social topics he addresses. The language of the movie moves us and mobilizes us, ‘comments Ivana.
*With information from Agência Brasil
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