Dolores, a beautiful, rich and paralytic woman, hires detective Otávio to follow her husband Inácio and to find out what’s his true relationship with a young woman named Alice. A story of lies, false leads and obscure motivations, in which four characters of dubious moral try to appear honest to one another.
Included in the selection “The 30 Classic Brazilian Short Films of the 1990s”.
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“The audience (in Festival of Brasília) simply loved. Received the highest ovation since the beginning of the competition. Well deserved. It’s a noir story told with rare cinematic intelligence. In a perverse loving game, an intricate case involving conjugal infidelity and manipulation is mounting in the viewer’s eyes as a puzzle. (…) The film is an example of how one can innovate without departing from the average audience.”
(Luiz Zanin Oricchio, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 1995)
“Enough of heroes and villains! Gaucho director Carlos Gerbase creates in Deus Ex-Machina a fascinating script where there are only confused and limited human beings. The characters have already faced all the possible accidents of course, and now, without God and without the facilities of the oracles, they try to find reasons to continue living and lying.”
(WONDERFUL MAGAZINE, October 1995)
“Gaucho director Carlos Gerbase makes Deus Ex-Machina as a study of relativism, telling a story of crime and adultery from divergent points of view. It’s quite impressive how you manage to put so many perspectives superimposed on a short film. It’s his best job. In fact, the best work of the Gaucho group for many years. The highlight, in addition to the intricated script, which doesn’t alienate the viewer, is for the editing of Giba Assis Brasil. It gives to the plot a puzzle structure, whose meaning is only revealed in the end.”
(Luiz Zanin Oricchio, O ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO, 03/22/1996)
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A mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears in the skies, spreading dramatically across the world, forcing everyone to stay at home. Giovana is confined in an apartment with Yago, a man she met at a party the night before. While waiting for the cloud to pass, the two have to invent themselves as a couple. […]
In 1961, the Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Leonel Brizola, leads the Legality, an unprecedented movement in Brazilian history. He mobilizes the population in a resistance movement when João Goulart’s term as president is at stake. With the imminence of a military coup, a mysterious journalist can change the course of the country. Trailer […]
