Futuro Beach

Name: Futuro Beach
Genre: Drama
Released: February 27, 2015
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 64

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: February 27, 2015 | Unrated

Summary: Donato (Wagner Moura) works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad (Clemens Schick) is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After Donato saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotionalDonato (Wagner Moura) works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad (Clemens Schick) is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After Donato saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional connection. Donato decides to leave everything behind, including his ailing mother and younger brother, Ayrton, to travel back to Berlin with Konrad. There, he finds both confusion and liberation, and his journey for love soon turns into a deeper search for his own identity. Eight years later, an unexpected visit from Ayrton, brings all three men back together as they struggle to reconcile the pain of loss and longing, instinctively drawn to each other in search of hope and a brighter future. [Strand Releasing]… Expand

Director: Karim Ainouz

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 106 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Feb 27, 2015

Ultimately, Futuro Beach is a film about displacement and identity, love and its costs. Its considerable satisfactions, though, come mainly from the way the story is told, which spells nothing out, and in fact is so reticent that the viewer is constantly drawn into the creation of meaning. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Feb 26, 2015

Its visual and sonic verve more than compensate for some overworked symbolism. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Oct 25, 2015

It’s an immensely likable movie, impeccably acted and wise about the nature of exile. Read full review

David Lewis

Mar 13, 2015

Futuro Beach is part of a welcome wave of European and South American films that center on gay characters, yet deal with universal themes and offer a certain sensibility that would please any art-house enthusiast. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 26, 2015

Karim Ainouz has always been more attentive as a filmmaker to the creation of atmospheric and emotional texture than to story or character, and that bias inhibits this visually seductive drama from fully engaging beyond the aesthetic level. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Feb 24, 2015

The images are gorgeous, but they’re gorgeous in a void; unlike in The Silver Cliff, the intended connection to the people who inhabit them is missing. Possibly Aïnouz let autobiographical impulses lead him astray. Or maybe he’s an avant-garde filmmaker at heart. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Apr 16, 2015

If director-co-writer Karim Aïnouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded. Read full review

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foxgrove

Mar 22, 2015

A long and slow exercise in tedium, this gay themed film is divided into three chapter headings and set between the differing cultures of Brazil and Germany. The slight story, which had the potential to be so much more never uses dialogue when a visual will do. This is in no way meant as aA long and slow exercise in tedium, this gay themed film is divided into three chapter headings and set between the differing cultures of Brazil and Germany. The slight story, which had the potential to be so much more never uses dialogue when a visual will do. This is in no way meant as a compliment to the cinematography which is actually just journeyman work. Rather the film is full of so called ‘evocative’ imagery much of which is just pointlessly extended at the expense of anyone actually saying anything. There are endless shots of nothing in particular like the sea, wind turbines, a plane in the sky, seagulls hovering, people walking, people staring, people bonking. Get the picture? Good, because the picture is all you get from this ambiguous and often irritating angst ridden drama. Occasionally a scene threatens to become interesting (chapter 3 promises the most) but before you know it we are back to the cinematic equivalent of watching paint dry. The gay market is catered for with much shirt less ness and sex, but anyone expecting any kind of relationship to be explored meaningfully are watching the wrong movie. The leads also lack charisma, so by the time the unsatisfyingly ambiguous ending finally arrives, any discerning audience member will already be contemplating what they are going to do next.… Expand

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