Anonymous Content Brazil, a CAA-backed partnership between São Paulo-based Rt Features and Anonymous Content, has kicked off production on its first scripted project, a TV adaptation of Raphael Montes’ bestseller “Perfect Days” for Globo Brazil’s giant streaming platform, Globoplay.
The eight-episode adaptation is directed by International Emmy-winning helmer Joana Jabace (“Precious Pearl”) from scripts penned by Claudia Jouvin (“The Nightshifter”).
In “Perfect Days,” Clarice (played by Julia Dalavia), a carefree, budding screenwriter, playfully kisses Téo, an awkward medical student, to rile her college boyfriend. But the joke escalates into a nightmare when Téo, fixated on making Clarice love him, abducts her for a frantic road trip across Rio de Janeiro. His obsession intensifies, driving him to extreme lengths to safeguard their supposed perfect life.
The series also stars Jaffar Bambirra (“A vida pela frente”), Débora Bloch (“Segunda chamada”) and Fabiula Nascimento (“The Night Shifter”).
“We are proud of...
The eight-episode adaptation is directed by International Emmy-winning helmer Joana Jabace (“Precious Pearl”) from scripts penned by Claudia Jouvin (“The Nightshifter”).
In “Perfect Days,” Clarice (played by Julia Dalavia), a carefree, budding screenwriter, playfully kisses Téo, an awkward medical student, to rile her college boyfriend. But the joke escalates into a nightmare when Téo, fixated on making Clarice love him, abducts her for a frantic road trip across Rio de Janeiro. His obsession intensifies, driving him to extreme lengths to safeguard their supposed perfect life.
The series also stars Jaffar Bambirra (“A vida pela frente”), Débora Bloch (“Segunda chamada”) and Fabiula Nascimento (“The Night Shifter”).
“We are proud of...
- 3/20/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
This is the Pure Movies review of Adrift (À Deriva), directed by Heitor Dhalia and starring Camilla Belle, Vincent Cassel, Laura Neiva, Cauã Reymond, Débora Bloch, Gregório Duvivier and Josefina Schiller. From his breakthrough role in 1995’s La Haine to last year’s excellent Mesrine biopics, Vincent Cassel seemed more often than not to be drawn toward villains and loveable-rogue characters. Audiences could be forgiven, then, for assuming it would be the same here. In fact, the tone of Adrift couldn’t be more different, and Cassel produces a heartfelt performance as a French author and doting father struggling to salvage his marriage with his Brazilian wife.
- 11/27/2010
- by Michael Holder
- Pure Movies
This Brazilian story of marital crisis and summer beach romance makes for competent, if unexceptional drama
Heitor Dhalia's movie is a summer romance and a sexual-awakening story, set in a Brazilian beach resort in the 1980s: it has an echo of Rumer Godden's novel Greengage Summer, which became a film in 1961 with Kenneth More and Danielle Darrieux. Vincent Cassel plays Mathias, a middle-aged writer, who has brought his family to this summer beach house ostensibly for a relaxing break, and so that he can cure his writer's block and get on with a new novel. Though French, he speaks fluent Portuguese with his wife Clarice (Débora Bloch), whose unhappiness in the marriage manifests itself in heavy drinking. He is a negligent, but affectionate father to three children, the eldest of whom is the blossoming Filipa (Laura Neiva), who is increasingly aware of her dad's friendship with a beautiful local woman,...
Heitor Dhalia's movie is a summer romance and a sexual-awakening story, set in a Brazilian beach resort in the 1980s: it has an echo of Rumer Godden's novel Greengage Summer, which became a film in 1961 with Kenneth More and Danielle Darrieux. Vincent Cassel plays Mathias, a middle-aged writer, who has brought his family to this summer beach house ostensibly for a relaxing break, and so that he can cure his writer's block and get on with a new novel. Though French, he speaks fluent Portuguese with his wife Clarice (Débora Bloch), whose unhappiness in the marriage manifests itself in heavy drinking. He is a negligent, but affectionate father to three children, the eldest of whom is the blossoming Filipa (Laura Neiva), who is increasingly aware of her dad's friendship with a beautiful local woman,...
- 11/18/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches of Brazil comes Adrift, known as À Deriva in Portuguese, the third film from Brazilian director Heitor Dhalia. I'm going to say right up front - following in the footsteps of City of God director Fernando Meirelles, Dhalia is the next great Brazilian filmmaker on the verge of breaking out. Adrift is his calling card, a gorgeous family drama about a beautiful young girl (seen above) and her parents. It's not a masterpiece, but it is definitely one of the better films I've seen here that offers so much to fall in love with, whether it be the actors, cinematography, or story. French actor Vincent Cassel stars as Mathias, the loving father of a family of three kids, husband of Clarice (Débora Bloch), and struggling author in desperate need of money. Set in the 1980's on the...
- 5/22/2009
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
- What happens when a teenage daughter discovers her own sexuality while her parents are rediscovering their own? A rather awkward, uncomfortable predicament is applied to a sea-side, sun-bleached town with villas, where a young protagonist Filipa (via first time actress Laura Neiva) deals not only with her yearnings, but with the possible break up of her parent's marriage. Heitor Dhalia's visually alluring Adrift might at first have everything sorted out in a pre-determined fashion (mom drinks, dad has his adventure, daughter is confused) but the truth of the matter is: the climax is rather mature and everything that you might want after some questionable scenes. The warmly received Adrift was shown in the Un Certain Regard section with a good applause from its supporters. Camilla Belle wasn't in attendance, but being in France meant that one of the country's biggest stars would indeed be there. The real question
- 5/22/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
- [Ed's note: This month Bruno keeps tabs on the Heitor Dhalia's big in scope project, updates us on César Charlone's festival fav, and let's us know what Fernando Meirelles is up to.] Setting SailHeitor Dhalia (director from Drained, chosen as the best Brazilian movie of 2006) is about to begin shooting his third movie. Called À Deriva (Adrift), the story is described as a portrait of the first generation of children whose parents are divorcing. A 14 year old immerses into the adult’s world when she finds out that her father is having an affair. The cast is composed by the French actor Vincent Cassel (from “Irréversible” and “Eastern Promises”) as the father, the American actress Camilla Belle (from the hits “10,000 B.C.” and “A Little Princess”) as the mistress and the Brazilian actresses Débora Bloch and Taís Araujo. The shooting starts in April in Brazil. Dreaming Big The Pope’s Toilet (co-production between Uruguay, Brazil and France) is the first incursion of the Uruguayan, but settled in Brazil cinematographer César Charlone does the double duty of director and writer, tasks that he shares with Enrique Fernández.
- 4/10/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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