Pablo Larraín’s “Jackie” may be getting Oscar buzz, but it’s not his only film up for contention. His Spanish-language picture “Neruda,” starring Luis Gnecco and Gael García Bernal, has also been well received by critics, especially at the 2016 Fenix Awards — it took home four prizes, including Best Picture and Best Editing.
The drama, which is also Chile’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign-Language Film, tells the story of poet Pablo Neruda (Gnecco), arguably the most famous communist in post-wwii Chile. When the political tides shift, he is forced into hiding with tenacious police inspector Oscar Peluchoneau (Bernal) hot on his trail.
Read More: How The Fenix Awards Became Mexico’s Secret Weapon at the Oscars
The third annual Fenix Ibero-American Film Awards took place on December 7 in Mexico City and honored the best in film from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Another big hit of the night...
The drama, which is also Chile’s official Oscar entry for Best Foreign-Language Film, tells the story of poet Pablo Neruda (Gnecco), arguably the most famous communist in post-wwii Chile. When the political tides shift, he is forced into hiding with tenacious police inspector Oscar Peluchoneau (Bernal) hot on his trail.
Read More: How The Fenix Awards Became Mexico’s Secret Weapon at the Oscars
The third annual Fenix Ibero-American Film Awards took place on December 7 in Mexico City and honored the best in film from Latin America, Spain and Portugal.
Another big hit of the night...
- 12/8/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
More often than not, the first thing a given critic discusses when diving into a film (besides its narrative) is the work of the director. And in many cases that’s more than justified. Especially when that director is a superb craftsman like Gabriel Mascaro. However, for the director’s latest film, one of its greatest stars isn’t in front of the screen or directing the action, instead he’s a beloved photographer lensing what may very well be one of the year’s most profoundly beautiful motion pictures.
Entitled Neon Bull Mascaro taps Diego Garcia to shoot his story of gender roles within the world of Brazilian rodeo, the vaquejada, a sport where cowboys try to rope bulls by their tails only to drag them violently to the ground. Focusing on a handsome, strong cowboy named Iremar who daydreams of becoming a fashion designer, the film spends the...
Entitled Neon Bull Mascaro taps Diego Garcia to shoot his story of gender roles within the world of Brazilian rodeo, the vaquejada, a sport where cowboys try to rope bulls by their tails only to drag them violently to the ground. Focusing on a handsome, strong cowboy named Iremar who daydreams of becoming a fashion designer, the film spends the...
- 4/8/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Brazilian helmer Gabriel Mascaro is a keen observer of human behaviors. With his documentary work, such as Housemaids, High-rise, he demonstrated his anthropological tendencies and lent sharp insights into complex Brazilian society while being playful and adventurous with the cinema medium. His latest, Neon Bull, is his second narrative feature after critically acclaimed narrative debut, August Winds. Just as with August Winds, the film defies categorization. Exquisitely lensed by Diego Garcia (Cemetery of Splendor), Neon Bull transports us to yet another marginal segment in Brazilian society. The title comes from Brazilian rodeo (vaquejada)- it involves two cowboys on their horses sandwiching the bull from both sides and taking it down by yanking their tails. Sometimes the show goes on at night and they...
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- 4/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Where Life Begins
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
We’re thrilled to find Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas at last embarking on his fifth feature, Where Life Begins, described by the director as a ‘cowboy story’ about the emotional phases of open relationships within the backdrop of Mexico’s fighting bull-breeding ranches. Reygadas presented his exceptional 2002 debut in the Directors’ Fortnight (where it was awarded a special mention for the Camera d’Or), while his next three features played in the main competition (Silent Light took home the Jury Prize in 2007 and Post Tenebras Lux netted him Best Director in 2012). Controversial and idiosyncratic, his works are often incredibly beautiful (perhaps the exception being 2005’s Battle in Heaven), even when displaying grotesque imagery. DoP Diego Garcia (Weerasthekul’s Cemetery of Splendor, Mascaro’s Neon Bull) notably serves as cinematographer this time around.
Cast: Na
Production Co.: Mantarraya, Le Pacte, Match Factory
U.
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Writer: Carlos Reygadas
We’re thrilled to find Mexican auteur Carlos Reygadas at last embarking on his fifth feature, Where Life Begins, described by the director as a ‘cowboy story’ about the emotional phases of open relationships within the backdrop of Mexico’s fighting bull-breeding ranches. Reygadas presented his exceptional 2002 debut in the Directors’ Fortnight (where it was awarded a special mention for the Camera d’Or), while his next three features played in the main competition (Silent Light took home the Jury Prize in 2007 and Post Tenebras Lux netted him Best Director in 2012). Controversial and idiosyncratic, his works are often incredibly beautiful (perhaps the exception being 2005’s Battle in Heaven), even when displaying grotesque imagery. DoP Diego Garcia (Weerasthekul’s Cemetery of Splendor, Mascaro’s Neon Bull) notably serves as cinematographer this time around.
Cast: Na
Production Co.: Mantarraya, Le Pacte, Match Factory
U.
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The sensorial cinema of Gabriel Mascaro, who turned the life of a group of cowhands into a poetic experience in Neon Bull (Boi Neon), was the big winner at the 17th edition of Rio de Janeiro’s International Film Festival.
The allegory of the recent economic transformations in Brazil received four Redentor awards on Tuesday night: best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best supporting actress for Alyne Santana.
Previously the film screened in Venice, where it won the Orizzonti special jury prize, and Toronto.
The best director prize was shared between Ives Rosenfeld’s Hopefuls (Aspirantes), a journey of a young amateur football player, and Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Kill Me Please (Mate-Me Por Favor), a teen horror film set at a school in Barra de Tijuca. Both works are first features.
The jury headed by the director and cinematographer Walter Carvalho also celebrated Hopefuls with a best actor prize for Ariclenes Barroso and a...
The allegory of the recent economic transformations in Brazil received four Redentor awards on Tuesday night: best film, best screenplay, best cinematography and best supporting actress for Alyne Santana.
Previously the film screened in Venice, where it won the Orizzonti special jury prize, and Toronto.
The best director prize was shared between Ives Rosenfeld’s Hopefuls (Aspirantes), a journey of a young amateur football player, and Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Kill Me Please (Mate-Me Por Favor), a teen horror film set at a school in Barra de Tijuca. Both works are first features.
The jury headed by the director and cinematographer Walter Carvalho also celebrated Hopefuls with a best actor prize for Ariclenes Barroso and a...
- 10/13/2015
- by elaineguerini@terra.com.br (Elaine Guerini)
- ScreenDaily
We can add one more iron to the Cannes fire…except this one will likely target the 2017 edition. Obviously nothing is official until the April announcement, but Jaime Romandia’s Mantarraya has Amat Escalante‘s The Untamed (currently in production on a two month shoot) earmarked for a probable showing, and Variety reports that Mantarraya has teamed with France’s Le Pacte and Germany’s The Match Factory to produce Donde nace la vida (“Where Life is Born”), the highly anticipated fifth feature film by auteur/agitator/Cannes-winning filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. Production will take place in the state of Tlaxcala (renowned for its fighting bull ranches) and will be co-produced with Reygadas’ Nodream Cinema in early 2016.
Gist: This “a simple but powerful story of love and loss of love, in open couple relationships, emotional phases on the downfall set in the context of Mexico’s fighting bull-breeding ranches.”
Worth Noting:...
Gist: This “a simple but powerful story of love and loss of love, in open couple relationships, emotional phases on the downfall set in the context of Mexico’s fighting bull-breeding ranches.”
Worth Noting:...
- 10/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Dear Fernando,You are done with the festival I know, but I since I have finally caught up with Anomalisa, I wanted to answer you about it. Back in Cannes you may recall how much I enjoyed Yorgos Lanthimos's The Lobster, but wondered if the second time around it would carry such a punch—in other words, how founded the experience of that film is on the first encounter. This is the very question I asked myself again after sitting through Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman's animated puppet drama, a wonderfully unsettling viewing experience of constant awkwardness, drawn-out deadtime, halted humor, and a truly never ending awareness that at no point did I have any idea what kind of movie this was or where it might be going. Isn't that wild? So used to genres and conventions, signposts, patterns, throwbacks and homages, it often feels like few films come as a true surprise.
- 9/21/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Read More: Exclusive 'Neon Bull' Poster Gives Tiff and Venice an Exotic Splash of Color Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction film, "Neon Bull." The film was the winner of the Horizons Special Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival and has been praised for its originality and visual richness, thanks in part to the cinematography from noted Mexican Dp Diego Garcia (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Cemetery of Splendour"). "Neon Bull" is set in Brazil among a group of farmhands who travel through the region as part of a "vaquejada" rodeo. The protagonist, Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), is fully immersed in this world but has dreams of bigger things as an aspiring fashion designer. Iremar's "road family" is a veritable band of misfits, but they are a close knit group as they make their way through the impoverished and culturally rich world of.
- 9/18/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
★★★★☆ Debuting in the Orizzonti sidebar at this year's 72nd Venice Film Festival, August Winds (2014) director Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull (2015) tells a bizarre and sensuous story of a team of bull handlers in a remote corner of Brazil. They go from town to town in a large Hgv with the bulls which they supply for a strange rodeo event. A bull is released and the horse riders, ride alongside the bulls and try to pull them to the ground by their tails. A film featuring such an exotic and dangerous, albeit decidedly cruel, sport might be expected to focus on the riders who risk their lives as lead characters. However, these guys hardly get more than a line.
Mascaro prefers to follow those who have to look after the bulls, sand their tails (so they're easy to grip) and shovel the shit. One such vaqueiro is Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), an...
Mascaro prefers to follow those who have to look after the bulls, sand their tails (so they're easy to grip) and shovel the shit. One such vaqueiro is Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), an...
- 9/9/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Our latest roundup begins with Boyd van Hoeij in the Hollywood Reporter: "A cowhand working at Brazil’s vaquejada rodeos spends all his spare time dreaming up sexy get-ups for a truck-driving female colleague who moonlights as an exotic dancer in Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull (Boi neon), the director’s follow-up to his acclaimed fiction feature debut August Winds. Instead of a straightforward narrative arc for the small cast of characters, the film—gorgeously shot and framed by Cemetery of Splendour cinematographer Diego Garcia—combines a documentary-like look at their everyday lives with a fascinating if not entirely clear-cut exploration of body and gender issues." Neon Bull's premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. We've got a clip and more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/6/2015
- Keyframe
Our latest roundup begins with Boyd van Hoeij in the Hollywood Reporter: "A cowhand working at Brazil’s vaquejada rodeos spends all his spare time dreaming up sexy get-ups for a truck-driving female colleague who moonlights as an exotic dancer in Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull (Boi neon), the director’s follow-up to his acclaimed fiction feature debut August Winds. Instead of a straightforward narrative arc for the small cast of characters, the film—gorgeously shot and framed by Cemetery of Splendour cinematographer Diego Garcia—combines a documentary-like look at their everyday lives with a fascinating if not entirely clear-cut exploration of body and gender issues." Neon Bull's premiered in Venice and now heads to Toronto. We've got a clip and more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 9/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "leisurely paced" Cemetery of Splendour "features some of the Thai auteur’s trademark surreal beauty, though doesn’t necessarily pack the same punch as movies like Syndromes and a Century or Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who May Recall Past Lives." But others are won over. Notes Adam Cook at Movie Mezzanine: "Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, his regular DoP, was hired to work on Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, so Weerasethakul teams up instead with rising talent Diego Garcia. His crisp, clear cinematography gives the film a sharp sense of the vibrant, textured surroundings." We've got the trailer, a clip, and we're gathering more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
For the Hollywood Reporter's Jordan Mintzer, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "leisurely paced" Cemetery of Splendour "features some of the Thai auteur’s trademark surreal beauty, though doesn’t necessarily pack the same punch as movies like Syndromes and a Century or Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who May Recall Past Lives." But others are won over. Notes Adam Cook at Movie Mezzanine: "Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, his regular DoP, was hired to work on Miguel Gomes’s Arabian Nights, so Weerasethakul teams up instead with rising talent Diego Garcia. His crisp, clear cinematography gives the film a sharp sense of the vibrant, textured surroundings." We've got the trailer, a clip, and we're gathering more reviews. » - David Hudson...
- 5/19/2015
- Keyframe
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