Tatuagem
Neutral, steady, measured drama / lgbt, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Paulete, the star of a daring theater group, is visited by his military brother-in-law, the young Fininha. A torrid relationship arises between the two, and now the soldier must deal with the prevailing repression during the Brazilian military dictatorship.
Our read · Tatuagem (2013) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama · lgbt · political entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Tatuagem
What watching it is actually like.
“You want lively Brazilian queer romance amid dictatorship and theater rebellion.”
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The reading.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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