{"id":15732,"date":"2023-06-23T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15732"},"modified":"2023-06-21T08:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T12:31:02","slug":"will-o-the-wisp-2022-joao-pedro-rodrigues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15732","title":{"rendered":"Will-o&#8217;-the-Wisp (2022, Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Alfredo&#8217;s dying flashback to 2011 flits from a forest musical to a dinner scene where Al (now curly-haired Mauro Costa) gives a dinner-table speech to camera about how older generations are failing us.  He decides to become a fireman, is shown around by Affonso (Andr\u00e9 Cabral).  The firemen train to <em>The Magic Flute<\/em>, and entertain themselves with nude reenactments of famous artworks.  While Al is looking at a penis slideshow he gets a call saying his dad has died of covid and he must return to the royal family, but he&#8217;ll always remember his time with Affonso, who I guess becomes president of Portugal.  A much sillier movie than <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11959\">The Ornithologist<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wisp1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wisp2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Michael Sicinski <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/will-o-wisp-joao-67288762\">on Patreon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Will-o&#8217;the-Wisp<\/em> is a critical inquiry into Portuguese history staged as intellectual gay porno, a Hottest Hunks of the Fire Brigade charity calendar that lights upon the legacy of colonialism, Western visual culture, and the ornamental irrelevance of Portugal&#8217;s faded aristocracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charles Bramesco <a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/fogo-fatuo-first-look-review\/\">in Little White Lies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sex should be fun and just a tiny bit goofy, an intuitively understood real-life concept that nonetheless eludes filmmakers all over the globe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>funeral fashions of the future:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wisp3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Alfredo&#8217;s dying flashback to 2011 flits from a forest musical to a dinner scene where Al (now curly-haired Mauro Costa) gives a dinner-table speech to camera about how older generations are failing us. He decides to become a fireman, is shown around by Affonso (Andr\u00e9 Cabral). The firemen train to The Magic Flute, and [&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":[2643,1811,424,370],"class_list":["post-15732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-joao-pedro-rodrigues","tag-nudity","tag-portugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732","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=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15750,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}