Medusa

Name: Medusa
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Released: July 29, 2022
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Arthur Santileone, Bruna G., Bruna Linzmeyer, Carol Romano, Felipe Frazão

2022

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Music Box Films | Release Date: July 29, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Arthur Santileone, Bruna G., Bruna Linzmeyer, Carol Romano, Felipe Frazão, Fernanda Lasevitch, Isadora Ruppert, Joana Medeiros, Lara Tremouroux, Lucas André, Mariana Oliveira, Natália Balbino, Thiago Fragoso

Summary: Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who haveMari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift. Nightmares of repressed desires and haunting visions of alluring temptation become undeniable and the urge to scream and release her paralyzing inner demons is more powerful than ever before. … Expand

Director: Anita Rocha da Silveira

Genre(s): Fantasy, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 127 min

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Jun 20, 2022

Medusa is an electrifying work of art that elevates its already elevated pop influences, a transcendental tableau of the true-life horror of female oppression. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Marya E. Gates

Jul 29, 2022

Eliciting powerful performances from her two leads and striking visuals from cinematographer João Atala, “Medusa” casts its gaze at the hypocritical and violent world of purity culture with unflinching honesty that will leave the audience spellbound long after the credits roll. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Mark Kermode

Jul 16, 2023

For all its multitudinous reference points, this remains very much Da Silveira’s movie – as distinct and pointed as Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night or Julia Ducournau’s Raw – a genre film with something to say, and a unique voice with which to say it. Read full review

Demetrios Matheou

Sep 22, 2021

Da Silveira sets a tone that nimbly flows between comedy, mystery and discomforting satire (the Pastor generally makes the skin crawl), though her occasional wink towards horror offers fun rather than frights, to the film’s detriment. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Jul 28, 2022

The film acts as a giallo thriller, a modern update to Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames and the latest entry in Brazil’s anti-Bolsonaro fantasy canon. Yet for all of these fascinating themes and well-executed nods, Medusa still feels narratively slight. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Jul 14, 2023

Its strengths and richness lie more in boasting a potent mix of universality in its rebellion against entrapment within societal ideals of self-worth, as well as cultural specificity and pertinence apropos the impact that white evangelists have over the political landscape in modern-day Brazil. Read full review

Jenny Nulf

Aug 11, 2022

What begins as a punchy, feminine-biting satire becomes fuzzy after the first act. It’s an admirable effort, but an overstuffed, demanding one as well. Read full review

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alanpotter17

Jun 28, 2023

A realidade, muitas vezes, é muito mais assustadora do que a ficção, os seres humanos conseguem despertar monstros ocultos em seu âmago e são capazes de grandes atrocidades. "Medusa" mostra o monstro criado pelo fanatismo religioso, em especial o discurso misógino e moralista posto àsA realidade, muitas vezes, é muito mais assustadora do que a ficção, os seres humanos conseguem despertar monstros ocultos em seu âmago e são capazes de grandes atrocidades. "Medusa" mostra o monstro criado pelo fanatismo religioso, em especial o discurso misógino e moralista posto às mulheres.
Nas primeiras cenas, vemos que o filme se aproveita da atmosfera de controle social mais ligada ao panóptico, isto é, uma sociedade que cria estruturas de controle e submissão que os indivíduos estão acostumados a reverenciar, e até mesmo a valorizar.
Assim, a trama se centra nas garotas cristãs e de como elas reagem a prostitutas, por exemplo. Até mesmo a história de violência a uma atriz é narrada, cujo rosto fora desfigurado, atacando sua feminilidade.
A partir daí, o filme vai focando em diversos detalhes que dialogam com a fé cristã neopentecostal, como o aproveitamento ilícito dos pastores (ligação com encenações e até com a política), o desejo reprimido, mas hipócrita (a cena em que o pastor acaricia a fiel), o arquétipo de mulher e de homem a que os jovens aspiram, com direito a toda aquela repressão sexual envolvida. Isso tudo numa atmosfera de filme de terror, com uma trilha de causar arrepios.
Claro que, involuntariamente, pode causar risos, e também é um filme que padece por conter cenas meio deslocadas entre si, quase desconexas, assumindo um ar meio episódico. As interpretações também não são o forte.
Ainda assim, não deixa de ser um retrato assustador de um Brasil que reverencia discursos militares, religiosos e conservadores, e que atua em corpos dissidentes de forma violenta, seja fisica ou psicologicamente.… Expand

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