Relatively speaking, our new “couple” are pretty well off. Facetime is no substitute for human contact. And Giovana’s schoolteacher friend Sara ( Kaya Rodrigues) is all alone. His very elderly Dad ( Girley Paes) is trapped with his day shift caregiver. ![]() She’s in her mother’s house with a guy she “just met,” a chiropractor, just two attractive thirtysomethings with a little food and a lot of time on their hands.īut her tweenage sister ( Helena Becker) is stuck in the home of where she was having a playdate with friends. Civil defense sirens wail, and Giovana ( Renata de Lélis) and Yago ( Eduardo Mendonça) interrupt those post-coital bliss to rush inside and “close all windows.” She thought “It must be a joke,” but now they know better. ![]() Nor does she dwell on how one puts that tube through your window without the deadly “pink cloud” getting inside.īut as the depression of confinement that goes from months to years sets in on screen, the viewer might rightly wonder if sitting through this no-longer-a-fantasy is good for one’s mental health.Ī mysterious “pink cloud” appears in the sky. There are things she anticipates that are right on the money, and elements of that life that don’t match the reality of what most of the world went through.Īnd she doesn’t fret about how, if no one can go outside without near-instant death, the electricity and water will stay on, food will be grown and harvested and who exactly installs the “tubes” that shove boxes of food right through your window. Writer-director Iuli Gerbase’s debut feature beat “Locked Down,” “The End of Us” and other actual pandemic-inspired movies to the punch simply because she thought of what that sort of life would be like before it actually happened. How much credit do you give this film, finished in 2019, for “anticipating” the pandemic and what life under a long lockdown might be like? A bit? A lot? Now subtract how much of a bummer it would be to relive that via a science fiction relationship story. The Brazilian lockdown drama “The Pink Cloud” can pretty much be reduced to the simplest mathematics of all.
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