Ventos De Agosto (Gabriel Mascaro, 2014): Brazil

Reviewed by Michelle Ciccati. Viewed at the AFI Fest 2014.

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August Winds is a slooow paced human story of life and death in a Brazilian, sea-side fishing village. The story goes back and forth between following Shirley (Dandara De Morais) and Jeison (Geova Manoel Dos Santos) through their everyday lives. We spend long, drawn out scenes with each of them to get a glimpse into the lives in this fishing village. Every character is touched by love and death. The sea plays such a huge role in this film, it is almost another character, to be reckoned with. Mid-film it switches from the narrative to actual footage of the sound recording, reminiscent of some Wes Anderson films where, at some point, we see the boom mic and the man recording. We see the actual children and people of the village and it forces the viewer to think about how much of the story is true. Ultimately, it is a story of mortality. “What the sea claims, it keeps” and life goes on…

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Published:
11.12.14 / 5pm
Category:
AFI Filmfest 2014, Films