![]() And the answer, which suggests itself throughout in these looks and touches, only comes at the film’s climax. We are forced to ask early what emotional foundation these two have for continuing to see one another. Their car rides, which were partly improvised, speak to enormous levels of frustration and mistrust between them. Think Stand By Me on the oceanside, and without the murder.Īlmada and Barcellos, who prepared for the film over a seven-month stretch, inhabit their characters fully, rendering every glance and motion meaningful. The summer is a dream, the time together fantastical and even literally illusory at times. Under the guidance of writer/directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon (who also produced), the journey in Seashore feels disconnected from reality, the characters lost in a miasma of pheromones, gaudy hair dye, skimpy bathing suits, and ocean air. Their trip to the ocean is as much for their own sanities as teenagers as for the errands they must accomplish. There’s a matter of lost money, for one, and a funeral to attend, but also the fact that these boys are very nearly men and as young guys do, they need a little time away from their lives and responsibilities. On the shores of a quiet Brazilian town are distant relatives that Martin (Matheus Almada) and Tomaz (a simmering, subtle Maurício Barcellos) need to visit for ambiguous reasons. They adore one another in the way that cigarette-smoking, name-calling bros can adore others thanks to the actors, their faux-hyper-masculine interactions reek with equal parts adulation, duplicity, and unspoken lust. A World Premiere at Berlin earlier in 2015, the film follows two queer young men, one already certain of his sexuality and the other, his close friend, on the edge of a discovery. Optimism and connection are the distinguishing emotional foci of the otherwise undemanding foreign-language teen drama Beira-Mar, an independent Brazilian feature now available on DVD and VOD as Seashore thanks to Wolfe Video. The relief, however, is often short-lived. Naturally, it is an intense relief when a project comes along with pleasure and possibility, rather than grief and abuse, as its central themes. This rule-of-thumb is truer than ever in independent film, where personal trauma and bildungsroman walk too consistently hand-in-hand. In the United States, the media’s primary interest in LGBTQ youth has been on their tragedies, their victimization, and their struggles. Official Selection of the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Language: Portuguese with English subtitles Starring: Matheus Almada, Maurício Barcellos, Ariel Artur, Elisa Brittes, Fernando Hart Directed and Written by: Filipe Matzembacher, Marcio ReolonĮxecutive Produced by: Filipe Matzembacher, Tainá Rocha ![]()
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