Fernando Coimbra: 'I'm really crazy about Shakespeare, and I read a lot of writers like Harold Bloom and other guys who write about his plays, and they all say that Macbeth specifically has this nightmarish feeling' Fernando Coimbra’s Carnival Is Over (Os Enforcados) offers a Shakespearean take on a crime thriller. It stars Irandhir Santos and Leandra Leal, as husband and wife Valerio and Regina, who upon inheriting a slice of their families dodgy gambling empire, start to plot to be king and queen not realising that the head that wears the crown is likely to be a lot more than uneasy. Framed in ways that emphasise elements of the carnival at its most subversive, Coimbra draws on Shakespearean plays, including Macbeth, while crafting something altogether twisty of his own. We caught up with the director after the film’s premiere at Toronto Film Festival, to talk about playing hard with the Bard,...
- 9/21/2024
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
What's in a name? A rose by any other would smell as sweet, but Carnival Is Over gets something extra from the original. Os Enforcados, a plural, and drawn from several places. Quartered in more, for the term finds its home in the magisterial and the magical. The Tarot has it as the 12th of its major arcana, a knave and not a knight. The hanged man, and so in plural the hanged.
Not men, carefully. A couple, more. Those names that are said and unsaid include the Scottish play. I leave its name out not from superstition but because it is as misleading as it is illuminating. Like the card its reversals allow new interpretations.
Pepe Rapazote is Valerio, a name that means "strong". Leandra Leal is Regina, she that rules. They launder money from the animal game through the family firm Mendes. That's from "son of Menendo", a...
Not men, carefully. A couple, more. Those names that are said and unsaid include the Scottish play. I leave its name out not from superstition but because it is as misleading as it is illuminating. Like the card its reversals allow new interpretations.
Pepe Rapazote is Valerio, a name that means "strong". Leandra Leal is Regina, she that rules. They launder money from the animal game through the family firm Mendes. That's from "son of Menendo", a...
- 9/17/2024
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
São Paulo production shingle Gullane, which is behind upcoming Netflix series “Senna,” has moved into development on a sequel to the animated feature “Noah’s Ark.”
Produced by Gullane and Walter Salles’ Videofilmes, “Noah’s Ark” has been sold to 45 countries by Edward Noeltner’s Cmg Management. It has grossed $4.25 million in territories in which it’s been released.
Imagem Filmes will bow “Noah’s Ark” in Brazil on more than 1,000 screens, a huge spreading a country of 3,300 screens. Rodrigo Santoro, Alice Braga and Julio Andrade feature among a Brazilian star-studded voice cast. It looks like the biggest release ever of a Brazilian movie in Brazil, Fabiano Gullane told Variety from Toronto, where the company is world premiering Fernando Coimbra’s “Carnival Is Over.”
“Noah’s Ark” was inspired by classic children’s songs by Bossa Nova pioneer Vinicius de Moraes. The 3D animated feature focuses on two male mice, Vini and Tito, who steal onto Noah’s ark,...
Produced by Gullane and Walter Salles’ Videofilmes, “Noah’s Ark” has been sold to 45 countries by Edward Noeltner’s Cmg Management. It has grossed $4.25 million in territories in which it’s been released.
Imagem Filmes will bow “Noah’s Ark” in Brazil on more than 1,000 screens, a huge spreading a country of 3,300 screens. Rodrigo Santoro, Alice Braga and Julio Andrade feature among a Brazilian star-studded voice cast. It looks like the biggest release ever of a Brazilian movie in Brazil, Fabiano Gullane told Variety from Toronto, where the company is world premiering Fernando Coimbra’s “Carnival Is Over.”
“Noah’s Ark” was inspired by classic children’s songs by Bossa Nova pioneer Vinicius de Moraes. The 3D animated feature focuses on two male mice, Vini and Tito, who steal onto Noah’s ark,...
- 9/7/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
by Cláudio Alves
Carnival Is Over (Photo Credit: Helena Barreto)
You know a film has grand ambitions, mayhap delusions of grandeur, when it opens with two extensive title cards setting up a mythos and cast of characters you'll need to follow to make sense of what's to come. Carnival Is Over wants to ensure the audience understands the century-old Animal Game, a clandestine lottery controlled by the "bicheiros" of Rio de Janeiro. Bask in this sense of legacy, for it's about to be upturned as a crisis of power blossoms within the crime lord's syndicate. It all starts with the return of a prodigal son from abroad, a year after his father's suspicious death. Valério is the heir's name, but you might as well call him Hamlet. Or perhaps Macbeth. Later in the narrative, he'll even play a little Titus Andronicus…...
Carnival Is Over (Photo Credit: Helena Barreto)
You know a film has grand ambitions, mayhap delusions of grandeur, when it opens with two extensive title cards setting up a mythos and cast of characters you'll need to follow to make sense of what's to come. Carnival Is Over wants to ensure the audience understands the century-old Animal Game, a clandestine lottery controlled by the "bicheiros" of Rio de Janeiro. Bask in this sense of legacy, for it's about to be upturned as a crisis of power blossoms within the crime lord's syndicate. It all starts with the return of a prodigal son from abroad, a year after his father's suspicious death. Valério is the heir's name, but you might as well call him Hamlet. Or perhaps Macbeth. Later in the narrative, he'll even play a little Titus Andronicus…...
- 9/7/2024
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
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