121 / BD 11 Neon Bull
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121 / BD 11 Neon Bull
From Second Run's website:
Neon Bull
(Boi Neon)
A film by Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, 2015
Gabriel Mascaro's sensual, subversive feature unfolds within the macho world of the vaquejada, a traditional Brazilian form of rodeo. Iremar is a bull wrangler, who aspires to being a fashion designer, and the film follows him and his friends as they travel from rodeo to rodeo dreaming of better days ahead.
Balancing a provocative realism with improvisational drama, Neon Bull is a celebration of its characters and their everyday lives as well as their obstinate capacity to dream. It explores the lives of its protagonists in evocative tableaux of fierce, funny, sweaty intimacy which lyrically subverts its macho domain.
"Neon Bull is a profound reflection on the intersection of the human and bestial... exalts carnal passion in beautiful, almost sculptural love scenes" New York Times
"Wild, sensual and transporting" Indiewire
ON BLU-RAY AND DVD 2018
Neon Bull
(Boi Neon)
A film by Gabriel Mascaro
Brazil, 2015
Gabriel Mascaro's sensual, subversive feature unfolds within the macho world of the vaquejada, a traditional Brazilian form of rodeo. Iremar is a bull wrangler, who aspires to being a fashion designer, and the film follows him and his friends as they travel from rodeo to rodeo dreaming of better days ahead.
Balancing a provocative realism with improvisational drama, Neon Bull is a celebration of its characters and their everyday lives as well as their obstinate capacity to dream. It explores the lives of its protagonists in evocative tableaux of fierce, funny, sweaty intimacy which lyrically subverts its macho domain.
"Neon Bull is a profound reflection on the intersection of the human and bestial... exalts carnal passion in beautiful, almost sculptural love scenes" New York Times
"Wild, sensual and transporting" Indiewire
ON BLU-RAY AND DVD 2018
- zedz
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Re: Forthcoming: Neon Bull
This is a really lovely film, much better than it sounds from any description I've read. Buy it!
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Re: Forthcoming: Neon Bull
Interesting. I have a lot of very good friends from Brazil. I'll ask them about this one.
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Re: Forthcoming: Neon Bull
It's a film that deconstructs and even inverts basically every stereotype of the Nordeste people who work in vaquejadas. I wasn't enamored of it, but it's great to see a respectable foreign label tackling Brazilian cinema.
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- knives
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Re: Forthcoming: Neon Bull
Yeah, I wouldn't call it a great film (the ending is generic arthouse silliness), but what it does right it does in a fairly great way.
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Re: Forthcoming: Neon Bull
The cover art for this is now up on Second Run’s Facebook page. It’s gorgeous.
- Bikey
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Beaver"NEON BULL is wildly mysterious, graphic, sensual, shocking and a beautiful film... it speaks volumes without political regard or judgment. Second Run's Blu-ray package does a great job of presenting the very visual film in HD and they supply over an hour of extras. Absolutely recommended!"
- senseabove
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Re: 121 / BD 11 Neon Bull
Not to stop anyone from supporting Second Run, but for anyone in the US who wants to preview this, it's on Netflix.
- Bikey
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Re: 121 / BD 11 Neon Bull
Guy Lodge at The Guardian on NEON BULL“Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro’s iridescent, intoxicating brew of eroticism, masculine crisis and rodeo culture never got the UK cinema release it deserved; now is its time to be found.”
- Bikey
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Mondo Digital on NEON BULL"A combination of slice-of-life character study and eye-popping surreal art film...
Always adventurous and full of surprises, UK label Second Run brings this film to Blu-ray and DVD in a beautiful presentation [...] Colors are bold and provide real eye candy where it counts, with an impressive level of detail and depth throughout; the Brazilian LPCM audio also sounds immaculate."
- Bikey
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STARBURST Magazine review Gabriel Mascaro's NEON BULL"It’s a thoroughly absorbing, eye-opening work of art... and one that transcends the medium in a fashion we rarely see."
- Bikey
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says Tom Birchenough at The Arts Desk... this is a film muscular in its execution, but one whose depths go far beyond such categories and resound long after its conclusion. Mascaro was only 32 when he finished it: we are sure to be hearing much more of him in the future.
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I thought this was a terrific little film that perhaps did not quite know how to end. But there are many things to like, admire and be impressed by over the course of the film including some very naturalistic performances, stunning cinematography (especially the lighting and framing) and some terrifically disarming humour that goes a long way from separating it from other slice of (rural) life type films.
The Second Run blu looks to have been encoded with slightly higher gamma (like Kino releases) but a couple of click downwards on your tv’s gamma setting will result in a spectacular image. Very happy to have this release.
The Second Run blu looks to have been encoded with slightly higher gamma (like Kino releases) but a couple of click downwards on your tv’s gamma setting will result in a spectacular image. Very happy to have this release.