The Fever

Name: The Fever
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: March 19, 2021
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Anunciata Teles Soares, Edmildo Vaz Pimentel, Erismar Fernandes Rodrigues, Johnatan Sodré, Kaisaro Jussara Brito

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Kimstim Films | Release Date (Streaming): March 19, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Anunciata Teles Soares, Edmildo Vaz Pimentel, Erismar Fernandes Rodrigues, Johnatan Sodré, Kaisaro Jussara Brito, Lourinelson Vladmir, Regis Myrupu, Rodson Vasconcelos, Rosa Peixoto, Suzy Lopes

Summary: Manaus is an industrial city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Justino, a 45 years old Desana native, works as a security guard at the cargo port. Since the death of his wife, his main company is his youngest daughter with whom he lives in a modest house on the outskirts of town. Nurse at a health clinic, Vanessa is accepted to studyManaus is an industrial city surrounded by the Amazon rainforest. Justino, a 45 years old Desana native, works as a security guard at the cargo port. Since the death of his wife, his main company is his youngest daughter with whom he lives in a modest house on the outskirts of town. Nurse at a health clinic, Vanessa is accepted to study medicine in Brasilia and will need to be leaving soon. As the days go by, Justino is overcome by a strong fever. During the night, a mysterious creature follows his footsteps. During the day, he fights to stay awake at work. But soon the tedious routine of the harbor is broken by the arrival of a new guard. Meanwhile, his brother’s visit makes Justino remember the life in the forest, from where he left twenty years ago. Between the oppression of the city and the distance of his native village, Justino can no longer endure an existence without place. [KimStim]… Expand

Director: Maya Da-Rin

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Christopher Machell

Aug 5, 2021

The magical realms of Justino’s stories are echoed in the real world, where spaces are enclosed but liminal, defined by uneasy boundaries that are easily breached. Read full review

The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

Mar 3, 2021

This is an entrancing film, orphaned by an unspeakable longing for a place–a whole world–that will never return. Read full review

Manuel Betancourt

Mar 26, 2021

It is Myrupu’s beguiling performance what anchors this intimate and entrancing epic, a modern-day fable about the very concept of modernity and the promise of fabulation. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Mar 18, 2021

Subtly sensorial more than conventionally narrative, The Fever inhabits an ethereal plane that centers Indigenous beliefs and cultural practices not as primitive but valid modes of engagement. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Apr 14, 2021

The natural world and the industrialized world are at odds once again. But it is to Da-Rin’s talent as a filmmaker that her political and ideological intent never overshadow this deceptively simple and astute tale of a sick man yearning for his home, and finally hearing the call of the wild. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Roxana Hadadi

Mar 19, 2021

When progress stops feeling like progress is what Da-Rin captures in The Fever, and fantastic lead actor Regis Myrupu is a conduit for a calamity that builds and builds. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Aug 12, 2021

The Fever is a calm and quiet and subtle film, a little inert perhaps, but deeply engaged with the hidden lives of Brazil’s indigenous people. There is poetry in it. Read full review

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