Directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt
Portugal, France, Brazil | 2019 | Fiction | 92 min | Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Film Source: Kino Lorber
Awards/premier festivals: Cannes Critics' Week?- Grand Prize
Sponsors: Bobbie Lanahan | Paula Willoquet-Maricond
There isn’t another film quite like it at the festival, or perhaps anywhere.?Part?loopily?queer sci-fi thriller, part faux-naive political rallying cry, all glued together with candy-floss clouds of romantic reverie. Diamantino borrows all the traditional nasty-scientist tropes and rom-com clichés but applies a transgressional palette. It touches on the current refugee crises in Europe as well as the rise of extreme nationalism without for a minute abandoning its tongue-in-cheek tone. No words will prepare you for it, but we’re willing to bet that you’ll never look at fluffy puppies in the same way again. ~OY