Neon Bull

Neon Bull

Film poster
Directed by Gabriel Mascaro
Written by Gabriel Mascaro
Starring Vinícius de Oliveira
Release dates
  • 4 September 2015 (2015-09-04) (Venice)
Running time
 101 minutes
Country Brazil
Language Portuguese

Neon Bull (Portuguese: Boi neon) is a 2015 Brazilian drama film directed by Gabriel Mascaro. The film had his World Premiere at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and won the Horizons (Orizzonti) - Special Jury Prize. It was also shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,[1] where it received an honorable mention from the jury.[2] At the 31st Warsaw International Film Festival it received the main prize of the International Competition, the Warsaw Grand Prix.[3]

Plot

Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) is a bull handler, working for a traveling group who transport bulls from rodeo to rodeo, who dreams of becoming a tailor and making fashionable clothing for women. He finds an outlet for his creativity making custom horse masks and provocative outfits for Galega (Maeve Jinkings), the group's driver who also performs sexually enticing dances for groups of men after each rodeo. They are accompanied by Galega's daughter, Cacá (Alyne Santana); and Zé (Carlos Pessoa), a buffoonish bull wrangler who is the butt of the other's jokes. The film deals mainly with the interactions between the members of this group, interspersed with Iremar's attempts to design clothing, and rodeo scenes. After an attempt by Iremar and Zé to steal valuable horse semen from a stud auction goes awry, Zé is offered a new job as a horse wrangler; he is replaced in the group by Junior (Vinícius de Oliveira) a young, attractive, and vain, but kind, man who befriends Cacá and becomes sexually involved with Galega. During a rodeo, Iremar meets a pregnant woman selling cologne and perfume from a large factory where she also works as a nighttime security guard. After the rodeo, the woman brings a bottle of cologne to Iremar as a gift. Later, at night, he visits her at the factory, where he is impressed by the industrial clothing machinery. She seduces him, the pair engage in a long, explicit sex scene and the film ends.

Cast

Accolades

Year Group/Award Category Recipient Result
2015 Venice International Film Festival Horizons (Orizzonti) – Best Film Gabriel Mascaro Nominated
Horizons (Orizzonti) - Special Jury Prize Won
2015 Toronto International Film Festival Platform – Best Film Gabriel Mascaro Nominated
2015 Toronto International Film Festival Platform - Special Mention Gabriel Mascaro Won
2015 Festival do Rio Best Film Gabriel Mascaro Won
2015 Festival do Rio Best Screenplay Gabriel Mascaro Won
2015 Festival do Rio Best Cinematography Diego Garcia Won
2015 Festival do Rio Best Supporting Actress Alyne Santa Won
2015 Filmfest Hamburg FIPRESCI Award Gabriel Mascaro Won

References

  1. ↑ "Toronto International Film Festival Announces Inaugural Platform Lineup". IndieWire. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Toronto International Film Festival Announces 2015 Award Winners" (PDF) (Press release). TIFF. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 21 September 2015.
  3. ↑ http://www.wff.pl/en/aktualnosci/31-wff-laureaci/ Awards announced at the festival site.

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