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A good deal more restrained and nuanced than The Craft and Carrie, Raquel 1:1 takes itself perhaps a little too seriously, presenting a rather straightforward tale of a repressed young woman living in a small town where everything is simple if you have faith. Starting over with her dad Hermes (Emilio de Mello), Raquel (Valentina Herszage) moves across Brazil to an old family home. Once there, Raquel—who considers herself religious even if she doesn’t regularly practice—encounters Laura (Eduarda Samara) and Ana (Priscila Bittencourt), who invite her to be part of the local church. Ana’s mother Elisa (Lianna Matheus) is the local pastor who gives daily, fiery sermons as Ana leads the youth outreach and group activities.
While spying on Laura and Ana swimming, Raquel finds herself drawn to a brick shack in the middle of the woods which becomes central to the story’s supernatural elements...
While spying on Laura and Ana swimming, Raquel finds herself drawn to a brick shack in the middle of the woods which becomes central to the story’s supernatural elements...
- 3/30/2022
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Fabio Meira's Two Irenes, which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 5 – December 4, 2019 in Mubi's Debuts series.I don’t know whether the Brazilian director Fabio Meira saw Krzysztof Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique (1991) before directing his poignant fiction debut, Two Irenes (2017). It would certainly be simplistic to suggest that Meira lifted the concept of a double life from the Polish director, or that Kieślowski invented the idea. But there are striking parallels between the two films; thinking of them in conjunction makes the experience of watching Meira’s film all that richer. The Double Life of Veronique is a metaphysical riddle, in which two young women, one Polish and one French, both played by the Swiss actress Irène Jacob, are spit images of each other but never physically meet.
- 10/26/2019
- MUBI
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