DIVINE LOVE: New Brazilian Cinema
Fri, Nov 20
|Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
A fluorescent sci-fi critique of today’s right-wing led Brazil, Divino Amor is a bold, sexy and satirically witty take on a near-future full of fundamentalist Christian dance parties, devotional bureaucracy, ritualistic orgies, marriage therapy cults and drive-thru confessionals.
Time & Location
Nov 20, 2020, 5:00 PM – Dec 20, 2020, 11:59 PM
Epsilon Spires Virtual Cinema
About the event
Virtual Tickets are $9.99. NOW AVAILABLE: https://row8.com/movie-details/97382258_esb
DIVINE LOVE (2019). Directed by Gabriel Mascaro. Commodified faith dominates this near-future vision of Brazil. With neon-drenched sci-fi aesthetics, sanctimonious eroticism, and incisive satire, Divino Amor intently takes on the influence of evangelical Christianity on the state — namely the far-right movement that elected populist Jair Bolsonaro. World premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and intense audience reactions, Divino Amor is a commentary on the conservative, fanatical, and nationalist agenda that is spreading throughout the world and the way those that don’t espouse it, engage with it. Sure to surprise and provoke, definitely recommended for adult-viewing only. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFF2D69YZ4g
"The new age of Brazilian protest cinema begins here, and DIVINE LOVE has kicked it off in dancing shoes."
"Mascaro is holding a frightening mirror (alongside a glittering disco mirrorball) to his country’s political present. “Divine Love” arrives shortly after Bolsonaro abolished…