Neon Bull
Gabriel Mascaro: Ebbs and Flows
April 15 - 21, 2016
A handsome Brazilian cowboy, traveling the rodeo circuit with his unorthodox surrogate family, dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Culminating in an unforgettable sex scene, Gabriel Mascaro’s Venice and Toronto prizewinner is a quietly affirming exploration of desire and labor, a humane and sensual study of bodies at work and at play.
A rodeo movie unlike any other, Gabriel Mascaro’s Venice and Toronto prize-winning follow-up to his 2014 fiction debut August Winds tracks handsome cowboy Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) as he travels around to work at vaquejada rodeos, a Brazilian variation on the sport in which two men on horseback attempt to bring a bull down by its tail. Iremar dreams of becoming a fashion designer, creating flamboyant outfits for his co-worker, single mother Galega (Maeve Jinkings). Along with Galega’s daughter Cacá and a bullpen worker named Zé, these complex characters, drawn with tremendous compassion and not an ounce of condescension, make up an unorthodox family, on the move across the northeast Brazilian countryside. Sensitive to matters of gender and class, and culminating in one of the most audacious and memorable sex scenes in recent memory, Neon Bull is a quietly affirming exploration of desire and labor, a humane and sensual study of bodies at work and at play. A Kino Lorber release.
Don’t miss our retrospective of Gabriel Mascaro’s previous work, April 15 – 21.
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