Pink Cloud
Nails lockdown life with aching, precise accuracy...might endure as more era-evocative than many of the intentional pandemic dramas to come.
The Pink Cloud
Life changes on a dime when a toxic and mysterious pink cloud appears across the globe, forcing the world indoors immediately and indefinitely. In Brazil, Giovana (Renata de Lélis) finds herself stuck in her apartment with a man she just met (Eduardo Mendonça). But their carefree one-night stand grows into a years-long relationship complicated by a child and increasingly divergent worldviews as they try to imagine a future from the depths of a potentially never-ending lockdown. Written in 2017 and shot in 2019, this stunning, slow-burn sci-fi debut from writer/director luli Gerbase is both an eerily prescient reflection of our reality and a cathartic exploration of hope and despair, love and fear, and the boundlessness and limits of our ability as humans to adapt.
"Staggeringly original... will make you wonder if writer/director
Iuli Gerbase is a prophet."
—Jourdain Searles, Hyperallergic
“Haunting and riveting in the best way.”
— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
"Uncanny [and] ambitious."
—Carlos Aguilar, Roger Ebert.com
“Extraordinary”
—David Sims, The Atlantic
“Oddly therapeutic… with thoughtful camerawork and surreal production design elements propelling its observations into spine-tingling familiarity.”
—Tomris Laffly, Harper's Bazaar
"Staggeringly original... will make you wonder if writer/director
Iuli Gerbase is a prophet."
—Jourdain Searles, Hyperallergic
“Haunting and riveting in the best way.”
— Alissa Wilkinson, Vox
"Uncanny [and] ambitious."
—Carlos Aguilar, Roger Ebert.com
“Extraordinary”
—David Sims, The Atlantic
“Oddly therapeutic… with thoughtful camerawork and surreal production design elements propelling its observations into spine-tingling familiarity.”
—Tomris Laffly, Harper's Bazaar
Genre
Drama
Web Site
Runtime
103
Language
Portuguese,
English
Director
Iuli Gerbase
Writer(s)
Iuli Gerbase
Cast
Eduardo Mendonça,
Renata de Lélis,
Kaya Rodrigues,
Girley Brasil Paes,
Helena Becker,
Lívia Perrone Pires
Awards:
Nominee, Grand Jury Prize ~ World Cinema Dramatic, Sundance Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
David Sims, The Atlantic
“This film was written in 2017 and shot in 2019.” So reads the disclaimer at the start of 'The Pink Cloud,' a clever and surprising Brazilian movie that was among the best offerings at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Far from a mundane declaration, the note from the writer-director Iuli Gerbase ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 1.21.22 - 1.27.22
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