Tag: Gabriel Mascaro
2025 Berlinale: “Dreams (Sex Love)” Won the Golden Bear … but “The Blue Trail” Was the Best Film
Todd Haynes' jury awarded the 75th Berlin Intl. Film Festival's top honors this past Saturday to Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) but the...
The Blue Trail (O último azul) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Crimes of the Future: Mascaro Envisions Trouble Ahead
“Getting old ain’t no place for sissies,” a quote often attributed to Bette Davis (or similar variations...
2025 Berlinale: Linklater, Hadžihalilović, Sangsoo, Gabriel Mascaro, Michel Franco, Vivian Qu & Mary Bronstein in Comp
Nineteen features in competition, Artistic Director Tricia Tuttle loaded up on some mainstay auteurs with the likes of Richard Linklater, Michel Franco, Hong Sangsoo,...
Rodrigo Santoro Finds “Outro Lado do Céu” Deep in the Amazon
We saw that Brazilian filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro was hard at work on a new fourth feature, and now we have the title, cast and...
Body Heat: Gabriel Mascaro Sets Sail on Fourth Fiction Feature
August Winds (2014), Neon Bull (2015) and Divine Love (2019) filmmaker Gabriel Mascaro has began production on his fourth fiction feature film in his...
Divine Love | Review
Mighty Aphrodite: Mascaro’s Second Coming Cloaked in Complex Allegory
The Immaculate Conception remains one of the notorious suspensions of disbelief in Christian folklore, and Brazilian...
2019 Sundance Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 5 Most Anticipated Films
Like many of the fourth quarter 2018 film festival circuit venues (Toronto, Venice, AFI), Sundance 2019 benefits from an overstuffed foreign film market, taking...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #46. Divine Love – Gabriel Mascaro
Divine Love
Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s third feature, Divine Love (previously known as Overgod) has been highly anticipated ever since his 2015 breakout Neon Bull (read...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions I: North & South America
As we near the announcement of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival’s program next month (April 12th for Cannes, 16th for Critics' Week and possibly...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #46. Gabriel Mascaro’s Overgod
Overgod
Brazil’s Gabriel Mascaro broke into international success with his provocative sophomore film Neon Bull (read review) in 2015, where it won a Special Jury Prize...
Neon Bull | Blu-ray Review
Premiering at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in the Horizons sidebar, Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s exceptional sophomore feature Neon Bull won the Special Jury...
The Conversation: Top Ten Films of 2015 in…2016
As always, a number of deserving film festival entries are stragglers in need of distribution or funneled away by buyers to be released in...
The Conversation: 2015 TIFF Top 10 New Voices
Though it’s a harder film festival to regulate and therefore tabulate a comprehensively genuine list reflecting the totality of the fest’s offering per any...
The Conversation: The Totality of Toronto (Plus 2015 TIFF Top Ten)
In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of...
2015 TIFF: Wheatley, Trapero, Lafosse, Verbeek & Sue Brooks in Platform Comp
The TIFF folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they've managed to lasso some high profile...
2015 Venice Film Fest: Corbet, Mahaffy, Saada & Lindholm Preeming in Horizons Section
Back to back mid-summer Xmas mornings with the rollout of major premiere titles at TIFF and now the full line-up for Venice means we're...
