{"id":13742,"date":"2020-09-09T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13742"},"modified":"2020-09-06T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T19:00:54","slug":"kid-2015-julio-bressane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13742","title":{"rendered":"Kid (2015, J\u00falio Bressane)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Locarno 2015, Julio Bressane served on a jury, programmed a section of Brazilian films, and presented his new work <em>Garoto (Kid)<\/em>.  I was psyched for this, since I&#8217;ve seen Bressane&#8217;s name around forever.  He has an early feature called <em>Killed the Family and Went to the Movies<\/em> and a brand new one starring a parrot, a woman and &#8220;a large portion of raw meat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A young woman (Marjorie Estiano, star of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13246\">Good Manners<\/a><\/em>) calmly philosophizes in static scenes shot with a video-looking handheld camera.  She tells her mute boyfriend a story about a boy who loved killing, then she, um, kisses and performs oral sex on the camera.  Later, they go to her friend&#8217;s house (Josi Antello of <em>Sentimental Education<\/em>), where the boy apparently freaks out, killing Josi then running away to wander through the desert accompanied by quiet wild-west sounds and the effect of wind overloading a microphone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/garoto2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a Borges story about Billy the Kid.  Struck me as a sort of half-assed <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12127\">R\u00e9v\u00e9lateur<\/a><\/em>, every shot held too long in that familiar arthouse fest-film way, but without the technique to keep it interesting.  I admit a scene that kept panning to a man softly drumming on a painted board was intriguing &#8211; the first time it happened.  The lo-fi video look might&#8217;ve just been me getting a poor-quality copy online, but the mic problems say maybe that&#8217;s not the case&#8230; either way, it made me think of LNKarno discovery <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12101\">Jean-Claude Brisseau<\/a>, especially when he positions the two actresses in front of his bookshelves.  On one hand, Brisseau seems 100x more interesting and I should look up more of his films&#8230; on the other hand&#8230; the new Bressane stars <i>a parrot<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bressane&#8217;s messaging was ahead of its time:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/garoto1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Locarno 2015, Julio Bressane served on a jury, programmed a section of Brazilian films, and presented his new work Garoto (Kid). I was psyched for this, since I&#8217;ve seen Bressane&#8217;s name around forever. He has an early feature called Killed the Family and Went to the Movies and a brand new one starring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,828,2706,2284],"class_list":["post-13742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-brazil","tag-julio-bressane","tag-lnkarno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13757,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13742\/revisions\/13757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}