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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Donato (Wagner Moura) works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad (Clemens Schick) is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After Donato saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional c...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Felipe Bragança, Marco Dutra, Karim Aïnouz

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 46 m

Futuro Beach

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Donato (Wagner Moura) works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad (Clemens Schick) is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After Donato saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional c...

Directed By: Karim Aïnouz

Written By: Felipe Bragança, Marco Dutra, Karim Aïnouz

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
64
55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
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45% Mixed
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0% Negative
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88
Feb 27, 2015
Ultimately, Futuro Beach is a film about displacement and identity, love and its costs. Its considerable satisfactions, though, come mainly from the way the story is told, which spells nothing out, and in fact is so reticent that the viewer is constantly drawn into the creation of meaning.
By Godfrey Cheshire FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 26, 2015
Its visual and sonic verve more than compensate for some overworked symbolism.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 26, 2015
Balancing its abstract storytelling with commanding visuals (by the gifted cinematographer Ali Olcay Gözkaya), Futuro Beach explores liberation and reinvention, the tug of familiarity versus the allure of the foreign.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
75
Mar 13, 2015
Futuro Beach is part of a welcome wave of European and South American films that center on gay characters, yet deal with universal themes and offer a certain sensibility that would please any art-house enthusiast.
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50
Feb 24, 2015
The images are gorgeous, but they’re gorgeous in a void; unlike in The Silver Cliff, the intended connection to the people who inhabit them is missing. Possibly Aïnouz let autobiographical impulses lead him astray. Or maybe he’s an avant-garde filmmaker at heart.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 22, 2015
It masks depleted drama under a progression of long takes, various music cues, and a three-chapter structure that grows successively tedious.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 16, 2015
If director-co-writer Karim Aïnouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Production Company Coração da Selva, Hank Levine Film, Watchmen Productions, Detailfilm
Release Date Feb 27, 2015
Duration 1 h 46 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/praiadofuturo
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Awards

Prêmio Guarani
• 3 Wins & 10 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
SESC Film Festival, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations

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