{"id":186977,"date":"2020-11-01T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=186977"},"modified":"2020-10-21T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T03:07:10","slug":"divine-love-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2020\/11\/01\/divine-love-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVINE LOVE MOVIE REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DIVINE LOVE (Divino Amor)<br \/>\nOutsider Pictures &#038; Strand Releasing<br \/>\nReviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten<br \/>\nDirector: Gabriel Mascaro<br \/>\nWriter: Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra<br \/>\nCast: Dira Paes, Juliio Machado, Antonio Pastich, Rubens Santos, Clayton Mariano<br \/>\nScreened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 10\/21\/20<br \/>\nOpens: November 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s grandiose to think that directors outside the United States are using cinema to channel their disgust with  customs and politics here in the United States.  Maybe Brazilians never heard of Trump.  When I was in Panama, I asked people on the street whether they were familiar with John McCain, who as born in Panama\u2019s Canal Zone\u2014at the time that he was running for President.   Nope.  Never heard of him.  <\/p>\n<p>Still it\u2019s convenient to wonder whether Gabriel Mascaro, who gave us the wonderful film \u201cNeon Bull\u201d about a rodeo hand who dreams of working in his region\u2019s blossoming clothing industry, is thinking of Trump\u2019s faux conservatism in making the allegorical \u201cDivine Love,\u201d but it\u2019s more likely that he\u2019s sending up Brazil\u2019s autocratic leader Jair Bolsonaro who is among our President\u2019s heroes.  More specifically, Mascaro takes aim at his country\u2019s conservatism, which like that sensibility in the U.S. favors religious oppression.  (Brazil has outlawed abortion with almost no exceptions.)<\/p>\n<p>However, reactionary anti-abortion notions are the flip side of the coin here.  The leads in \u201cDivine Love,\u201d Joana (Dira Paes) and her husband Danilo (Julio Machado) are not looking for abortion.  On the contrary they are desperate for a baby.  Em\u00edlio de Melle is their drive-through pastor, regularly consulted by Joana, who makes her living as a notary who deals with divorce documents, but who uses her position to sneak in advice to divorcing couples as she is eager to save their marriages.  The pastor advises them to pray for a baby, as God is listening.  Joana\u2019s own nuptials are fragile, since try as they may, Joana and Danilo cannot conceive.  In a bizarre train of events, the couple take part in a practice by an evangelical group called Divino Amor, a cult believing that to bring back the spark in couples, they should swing.  Yes, swing. The members have sex, then switch partners. Hey, I\u2019m not complaining, but Mascaro so much wants us in the audience to believe that they really are swinging that he indulges in long takes with full frontal nudity in a display of  soft-core porn.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you want about the excesses of evangelism, but Joana comes through during the third act.  Or does she?  When she gets what she thinks she wants, her anxieties increase, she is virtually threatened with excommunication, and her husband is ready to bolt.  Is \u201cDivine Love\u201d really a criticism of Brazilian extremist politics, a put-down of evangelism with its concurrent hypocrisies?  Viewers will likely leave the theaters with much to discuss in a film that introduces many questions with fewer answers.  All is told with the benefits of cinematographer Diego Garc\u00eda\u2019s vivid colors to complement the sensuality, and best of all a riveting performance by Dira Paes who, like many women worldwide obsessed with getting pregnant, throws the dice with conservative Christianity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>105 minutes.  \u00a9 2020 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n<p>Story \u2013 B<br \/>\nActing \u2013 B+<br \/>\nTechnical \u2013 B+<br \/>\nOverall \u2013 B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIVINE LOVE (Divino Amor) Outsider Pictures &#038; Strand Releasing Reviewed for Shockya.com &#038; BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Gabriel Mascaro Writer: Gabriel Mascaro, Rachel Daisy Ellis, Esdras Bezerra Cast: Dira Paes, Juliio Machado, Antonio Pastich, Rubens Santos, Clayton Mariano Screened at: Critics\u2019 link, NYC, 10\/21\/20 Opens: November 13, 2020 Maybe it\u2019s 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