This VERY low budget film (about $157?) spends almost all of its 90 minutes indoors while a crisis is playing outdoors. It's about nothing less than an attempt by revolutionaries to overthrow the government of Brazil in the mid-1960s. The film purports to paint on a very large canvas when it doesn't seem to have enough money to even BUY the canvas.
Where is the unrest? Where are the rabid revolutionaries? Where's the mayhem? Where's the actual plot? You won't find them in this film, except in stock footage of real events during the period. There are only three main players in the cast. It could easily have been a stage play. The one or two outdoor 'action' shots are amateurish, so unconvincing they're almost laughable. This is a film that just never seems to go anywhere, and it ends abruptly without a satisfactory explanation.
The raison d'etre behind this film could very well have been an attempt to show, yet again, 'steamy' scenes of simulated sex, the same 'steamy,' simulated sex we've seen countless times before. The film could also be interpreted as a love triangle, but its outcome is so 'telegraphed' that you can tell almost precisely what is going to happen long before the curtain comes down.
I watched this and really wondered why it was even made. It doesn't illuminate anything. The Brazilian troubles in the 1960s were international in their scope, but you'd never know it by watching this flick. It doesn't tell us anything about the causes of unrest, nor do we really ever find out anything about the three characters, except perhaps that they're horny. And it all moves with the pace of a snail.
Other than all of this, a terrific flick.
Where is the unrest? Where are the rabid revolutionaries? Where's the mayhem? Where's the actual plot? You won't find them in this film, except in stock footage of real events during the period. There are only three main players in the cast. It could easily have been a stage play. The one or two outdoor 'action' shots are amateurish, so unconvincing they're almost laughable. This is a film that just never seems to go anywhere, and it ends abruptly without a satisfactory explanation.
The raison d'etre behind this film could very well have been an attempt to show, yet again, 'steamy' scenes of simulated sex, the same 'steamy,' simulated sex we've seen countless times before. The film could also be interpreted as a love triangle, but its outcome is so 'telegraphed' that you can tell almost precisely what is going to happen long before the curtain comes down.
I watched this and really wondered why it was even made. It doesn't illuminate anything. The Brazilian troubles in the 1960s were international in their scope, but you'd never know it by watching this flick. It doesn't tell us anything about the causes of unrest, nor do we really ever find out anything about the three characters, except perhaps that they're horny. And it all moves with the pace of a snail.
Other than all of this, a terrific flick.