Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) is a roughneck. He’s a cowboy, a bull handler really, wrangling bulls into and out of a shoddy rural Brazilian rodeo. It’s dusty, difficult work, and the shows themselves are brutal, the bulls entering into a ring where two riders attempt to bring them down. The arena is spattered with the lost tail tassels of the bulls, ripped off by the riders. Iremar dutifully collects these tails, for use in his fantastical costume designs. So yes, Iremar might be a roughneck, but he’s a roughneck with dreams of designing delicate women’s bikinis and clothing. Don’t judge a book by its cover. The question of appearances and their complicated meanings is at the heart of Gabriel Mascaro’s remarkable and arresting “Neon Bull.” The film centers on Iremar and the nomadic group with whom he lives and works. Galega (Maeve Jinkings) drives the...
- 4/8/2016
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
More often than not, the first thing a given critic discusses when diving into a film (besides its narrative) is the work of the director. And in many cases that’s more than justified. Especially when that director is a superb craftsman like Gabriel Mascaro. However, for the director’s latest film, one of its greatest stars isn’t in front of the screen or directing the action, instead he’s a beloved photographer lensing what may very well be one of the year’s most profoundly beautiful motion pictures.
Entitled Neon Bull Mascaro taps Diego Garcia to shoot his story of gender roles within the world of Brazilian rodeo, the vaquejada, a sport where cowboys try to rope bulls by their tails only to drag them violently to the ground. Focusing on a handsome, strong cowboy named Iremar who daydreams of becoming a fashion designer, the film spends the...
Entitled Neon Bull Mascaro taps Diego Garcia to shoot his story of gender roles within the world of Brazilian rodeo, the vaquejada, a sport where cowboys try to rope bulls by their tails only to drag them violently to the ground. Focusing on a handsome, strong cowboy named Iremar who daydreams of becoming a fashion designer, the film spends the...
- 4/8/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Neon Bull (Boi neon) Kino Lorber Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Gabriel Mascaro Written by: Gabriel Mascaro Cast: Juliano Cazarré, Aline Santana, Carlos Pessoa, Maeve Jinkings, Vinicius de Oliveira, Josinaldo Alves, Samya de Lavor Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 3/22/16 Opens: April 8, 2016 Bullfighting was banned in Catalonia, Spain, in 2012. Computer models are available for examining frog anatomy, making dissection unnecessary in biology classes. American companies are falling over themselves, advertising that no animals were abused in the making of their products. Seaworld is under pressure to stop exploiting the services of whales and dolphins. Yet rodeos in the U.S. are still popular out west [ Read More ]
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- 4/3/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
When we caught Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro latest, “Neon Bull,” at the Marrakech International Film Festival in December, it’s safe to say we were taken by it. “Remarkable and arresting,” in fact, were the words we used to describe it, as were “audacious,” “original” and “absorbing.” We also proclaimed it would give Brazilian movie star Juliano Cazarré the “launch onto a global international stage” he deserves. And such accolades are not singular to our site, it seems, based on the first trailer for Mascaro’s poignant drama. Indeed, several like-minded critics are celebrating the film’s rich, emotionally-gripping story in the first promotional materials for the upcoming foreign film. Read More: Review: Gabriel Mascaro's Remarkable, Arresting 'Neon Bull' Like a faded nightclub on a Thursday in the middle of the afternoon, it’s easy to see something both longing, aching, mildly charming, and sobering about this new film,...
- 3/16/2016
- by Will Ashton
- The Playlist
Neon Bull has received almost nothing but fine notices in its lead-up to a theatrical release, over the past few months earning plaudits for its vision of non-masculine lifestyles and aspirations within the ostensibly macho world of Brazilian bull-handling and rodeos. Along with posting a complimentary, if not slightly hesitant, review out of last fall’s Hamburg Film Festival, we named it one of the 50 best 2016 films we’ve already seen.
Being that Kino will begin releasing Gabriel Mascaro‘s picture next month, a domestic trailer has arrived. We think it’s worth taking note of, at least when our review says, “[Even] within this loose storytelling structure, Neon Bull still functions as a casually transportive experience and a compelling investigation of masculinity in modern-day Latin America. Driven by Mascaro’s freely associative direction that draws heavily from the physicality and animalistic nature of rodeo races, the film approaches human sexuality...
Being that Kino will begin releasing Gabriel Mascaro‘s picture next month, a domestic trailer has arrived. We think it’s worth taking note of, at least when our review says, “[Even] within this loose storytelling structure, Neon Bull still functions as a casually transportive experience and a compelling investigation of masculinity in modern-day Latin America. Driven by Mascaro’s freely associative direction that draws heavily from the physicality and animalistic nature of rodeo races, the film approaches human sexuality...
- 3/14/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Watch: A Brazilian Cowboy Finds an Electrifying New Passion in Gabriel Mascaro's 'Neon Bull' Trailer
Stylistically eclectic and impressively prolific, Brazilian auteur Gabriel Mascaro made the jump to narrative filmmaking in 2014 with “August Winds,” after directing several documentaries exploring his homeland’s class divide. His latest fictional work, “Neon Bull,” received wide acclaim after it premiered at the Venice Film Festival and Tiff 2015.
Shot my Mexican cinematographer Diego García, who also recently lensed Apichatpong Weerasethakul's “Cemetery of Splendor,” Mascaro’s film follows a cowboy who works at a local rodeo and spends his days among bulls. But when he becomes fascinated with creating colorful and sensual clothing items, the protagonist finds himself caught between the life he has always known and the passion that has opened new possibilities.
Take a look at the U.S. trailer above.
Kino Lorber will release "Neon Bull" theatrically in NYC on April 8th at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the film will also be featured in the upcoming New Directors/New Films series.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will also screen a retrospective of the director's work titled 'Gabriel Mascaro: Ebbs and Flows,' which will take place April 15-21 and will give audiences a chance to see his diverse oeuvre.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. "Neon Bull" explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design exotic outfits for dancers. Synopsis courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Check out the mesmerizing official poster below...
Shot my Mexican cinematographer Diego García, who also recently lensed Apichatpong Weerasethakul's “Cemetery of Splendor,” Mascaro’s film follows a cowboy who works at a local rodeo and spends his days among bulls. But when he becomes fascinated with creating colorful and sensual clothing items, the protagonist finds himself caught between the life he has always known and the passion that has opened new possibilities.
Take a look at the U.S. trailer above.
Kino Lorber will release "Neon Bull" theatrically in NYC on April 8th at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the film will also be featured in the upcoming New Directors/New Films series.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will also screen a retrospective of the director's work titled 'Gabriel Mascaro: Ebbs and Flows,' which will take place April 15-21 and will give audiences a chance to see his diverse oeuvre.
The official synopsis reads as follows:
Wild, sensual and utterly transporting, Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the vaquejada, a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. "Neon Bull" explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design exotic outfits for dancers. Synopsis courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Check out the mesmerizing official poster below...
- 3/11/2016
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) is a roughneck. He’s a cowboy, a bull handler really, wrangling bulls into and out of a shoddy rural Brazilian rodeo. It’s dusty, difficult work, and the shows themselves are brutal, the bulls entering into a ring where two riders attempt to bring them down. The arena is spattered with the lost tail tassels of the bulls, ripped off by the riders. Iremar dutifully collects these tails, for use in his fantastical costume designs. So yes, Iremar might be a roughneck, but he’s a roughneck with dreams of designing delicate women’s bikinis and clothing. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Read More: Check Out Our Coverage Of The Marrakech Film Festival The question of appearances and their complicated meanings is at the heart of Gabriel Mascaro’s remarkable and arresting “Neon Bull.” The film centers on Iremar and the nomadic group...
- 12/17/2015
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Brazilian feature film Neon Bull and documentary Speed Sisters have walked away with the major prizes at this year.s Adelaide Film Festival.
Neon Bull was announced as winner of the Foxtel Movies International Award for Best Feature Film at this year.s Festival..
The Festival also announced Speed Sisters winner of its Documentary Award, sponsored by Flinders University.
Neon Bull director and screenwriter Gabriel Mascaro was awarded a $25,000 cash prize.
Ten features from around the globe competed for the Award, including films from the Us, Denmark, Ethiopia, South Korea, Vanuatu and Australia.
Foxtel Movies International Feature Jury President Christian Jeune paid tribute to Mascaro as a leading figure in a burgeoning new wave film movement coming out of Recife in Brazil.s north-east.
Jeune said Neon Bull was a project that impressed with its cinematic vision..
.This work allows us into a place where both animal and human bodies...
Neon Bull was announced as winner of the Foxtel Movies International Award for Best Feature Film at this year.s Festival..
The Festival also announced Speed Sisters winner of its Documentary Award, sponsored by Flinders University.
Neon Bull director and screenwriter Gabriel Mascaro was awarded a $25,000 cash prize.
Ten features from around the globe competed for the Award, including films from the Us, Denmark, Ethiopia, South Korea, Vanuatu and Australia.
Foxtel Movies International Feature Jury President Christian Jeune paid tribute to Mascaro as a leading figure in a burgeoning new wave film movement coming out of Recife in Brazil.s north-east.
Jeune said Neon Bull was a project that impressed with its cinematic vision..
.This work allows us into a place where both animal and human bodies...
- 11/4/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
The American Film Institute announced today the films that will screen in the World Cinema, Breakthrough, Midnight, Shorts and Cinema’s Legacy programs at AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi.
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
AFI Fest will take place November 5 – 12, 2015, in the heart of Hollywood. Screenings, Galas and events will be held at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre, the Tcl Chinese 6 Theatres, Dolby Theatre, the Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre at the Egyptian, the El Capitan Theatre and The Hollywood Roosevelt.
World Cinema showcases the most acclaimed international films of the year; Breakthrough highlights true discoveries of the programming process; Midnight selections will grip audiences with terror; and Cinema’s Legacy highlights classic movies and films about cinema. World Cinema and Breakthrough selections are among the films eligible for Audience Awards. Shorts selections are eligible for the Grand Jury Prize, which qualifies the winner for Academy Award®consideration. This year’s Shorts jury features filmmaker Janicza Bravo,...
- 10/22/2015
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Film fests such as the Toronto Int. Film Festival afford us the best of opportunities to get instantly familiar with new faces in the world of cinema. With last week’s The Conversation, I gave you a rundown of the talent behind the camera with the 2015 Tiff Top Ten New Voices. Today, we look back at the best performances from fresh and relatively new crop of actors and actresses. Almost evenly split genderwise, we’ll surely look back on these early performances from these youthful players as the moment where they received their big break and if they’re not familiar now, they surely will be in the coming years. In deliberating this top ten list, I focused on offerings either unique to the festival or near concurrent premieres in Locarno and Venice.
#10. Karelle Tremblay – Les Etres Chers
After Podz’s Miraculum (2013) Stefan Miljevic’s Amsterdam (2013) and Mathieu Denis’ Corbo...
#10. Karelle Tremblay – Les Etres Chers
After Podz’s Miraculum (2013) Stefan Miljevic’s Amsterdam (2013) and Mathieu Denis’ Corbo...
- 10/19/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
'I didn't want to subvert the gender roles or invert them but to dilate them' From the title on in, August Winds director Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull is a film of contrasts - from the earthy documentary colours and elements to highly stylised segments and moody lighting, occasionally employing the neon of the title. His central character Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) epitomises this, working by day at the vaquejada - a typde of rodeo in which two cowboys on horseback run with a bull before attempting to flip it over - while tying to pursue his dream of becoming a fashion designer in his spare time.
Mascaro - who won a Special Jury Prize for the film at Venice Film Festival - says the contradictions in the action reflect the landscape of north-eastern Brazil where the film is set.
Speaking to me ahead of the film's screenings at London Film Festival,...
Mascaro - who won a Special Jury Prize for the film at Venice Film Festival - says the contradictions in the action reflect the landscape of north-eastern Brazil where the film is set.
Speaking to me ahead of the film's screenings at London Film Festival,...
- 10/12/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
From Blue Is the Warmest Color to Stranger by the Lake, from Pride to The Danish Girl, movies dealing with Lgbt issues or characters have become ever more present at film festivals and cineplexes these past years. Against such background it’s especially intriguing to consider something like Neon Bull – a Brazilian rodeo drama in which everybody turns out to be straight – and its place in queer cinema.
The story is centered around hunky groundskeeper Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), who spends his days at a rodeo in rural Brazil taking care of the animals, keeping up the localities and assisting with the races. On these chores he’s joined by a small, tightly-knit group of people including precocious girl Cacá and her mother Galega. They all dine together and sleep in neighboring hammocks, collectively facing down the monotony of an arduous, menial existence more as a family than co-workers. Iremar, meanwhile,...
The story is centered around hunky groundskeeper Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), who spends his days at a rodeo in rural Brazil taking care of the animals, keeping up the localities and assisting with the races. On these chores he’s joined by a small, tightly-knit group of people including precocious girl Cacá and her mother Galega. They all dine together and sleep in neighboring hammocks, collectively facing down the monotony of an arduous, menial existence more as a family than co-workers. Iremar, meanwhile,...
- 10/11/2015
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
Read More: Exclusive 'Neon Bull' Poster Gives Tiff and Venice an Exotic Splash of Color Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction film, "Neon Bull." The film was the winner of the Horizons Special Jury Prize at this year's Venice Film Festival and has been praised for its originality and visual richness, thanks in part to the cinematography from noted Mexican Dp Diego Garcia (Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Cemetery of Splendour"). "Neon Bull" is set in Brazil among a group of farmhands who travel through the region as part of a "vaquejada" rodeo. The protagonist, Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), is fully immersed in this world but has dreams of bigger things as an aspiring fashion designer. Iremar's "road family" is a veritable band of misfits, but they are a close knit group as they make their way through the impoverished and culturally rich world of.
- 9/18/2015
- by Wil Barlow
- Indiewire
Kino Lorber has acquired the North American rights to Gabriel Mascaro’s “Neon Bull” ahead of its screening at Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap. The Brazilian drama — which already won the Horizons Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival — is set in Northeast Brazil on the Vaquejadas circuit, which is a Brazilian-style rodeo where two men on horseback attempt to bring down a bull by its tail. Iremar (Juliano Cazarre) is one of these rodeo cowboys, but dreams of becoming a fashion designer instead. “‘Neon Bull’ is a stunning work.
- 9/18/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
★★★★☆ Debuting in the Orizzonti sidebar at this year's 72nd Venice Film Festival, August Winds (2014) director Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull (2015) tells a bizarre and sensuous story of a team of bull handlers in a remote corner of Brazil. They go from town to town in a large Hgv with the bulls which they supply for a strange rodeo event. A bull is released and the horse riders, ride alongside the bulls and try to pull them to the ground by their tails. A film featuring such an exotic and dangerous, albeit decidedly cruel, sport might be expected to focus on the riders who risk their lives as lead characters. However, these guys hardly get more than a line.
Mascaro prefers to follow those who have to look after the bulls, sand their tails (so they're easy to grip) and shovel the shit. One such vaqueiro is Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), an...
Mascaro prefers to follow those who have to look after the bulls, sand their tails (so they're easy to grip) and shovel the shit. One such vaqueiro is Iremar (Juliano Cazarre), an...
- 9/9/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Read More: Venice Film Festival Unveils Lineup: Includes 'Equals' and 'The Danish Girl' World Premieres, New Noah Baumbach Documentary After turning heads at various festivals last year with his impressive, near-silent docudrama "August Winds," Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro is getting ready to do it all over again with his second feature, "Neon Bull." The film will be screening in both the Orizzonti section at Venice at the Platform program at Tiff, the latter of which will mark its North American premiere. The drama's official Tiff synopsis reads: "Gabriel Mascaro's second fiction feature unfolds within the world of the 'vaquejada,' a traditional exhibition sport in which cowboys try to pull bulls to the ground by their tails. Neon Bull explores the vaquejada through the eyes of Iremar (Juliano Cazarré), a handsome cowboy who works the events. While he's not afraid to get his hands dirty, Iremar's real dream is to design.
- 9/1/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Tiff folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they’ve managed to lasso some high profile world preems that will compete alongside Int. and Na premieres. Claire Denis, Agnieszka Holland and Jia Zhang-ke for which the name of the programme section is named after (Tiff referenced his 2000 film), will see a class comprised of the likes Joachim Lafosse and his piping hot The White Knights, David Verbeek (Full Contact starring Grégoire Colin – see pic above), Fabienne Berthaud and yet again actress Diane Kruger with Sky and Ben Wheatley‘s highly anticipated High Rise. Also included in the comp we find Pablo Trapero‘s Venice-bound The Clan, Eva Husson‘s hotly tipped directorial debut Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) and a docu entry that sounds absolutely brutal true story from Alan Zweig in Hurt. The winner will be announced on...
- 8/13/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
A Wolf At The Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) Outsider Pictures Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Fernando Coimbra Screenwriter: Fernando Coimbra Cast: Milhem Cortaz, Leandra Leal, Fabiula Nascimento, Juliano Cazarre, Paulo Tiefenthaler Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 3/2/15 Opens: March 27, 2015 Tourists going to Rio have been warned that because of widespread poverty, criminals living in the favelas may be mugging people whom they believe are carrying money, or, even more lucrative but mroe daring lies the threat of being kidnapped and held for ransom in Brazil’s most widely visited city. In “A Wolf at the Door,” writer-director Fernando Coimbra—known [ Read More ]
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- 3/23/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Director Fernando Meirelles (Blindness; City of God) and screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Damned United; The Queen) have teamed up for the first time, and the result is a subtle and striking globehopping ensemble drama of human interactions shaped by sex and love, honesty and deception, allure and retreat. Nearly everything that happens onscreen here is defined by what people do not say to one another: this a sophisticated step up -- way up -- from, say, Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve, and it’s much more delicate and graceful than the film it’s most like, the controversial Oscar Best Picture Crash. From Vienna to Paris to London to Denver, we meet a married man traveling on business (Jude Law: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) tempted to stray with a prostitute -- “Blanka” (Lucia Siposová) is on her first “date” and nervous about it. We meet a man...
- 8/10/2012
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The new film 360, directed by Fernando Meirelles and written by Peter Morgan, has a starry ensemble cast that includes Jude Law, Anthony Hopkins, and Ben Foster, and each of them gets a spotlight sequence of his own as the film moves smoothly from following one character to another in a manner that recalls the classic La Ronde. 360 opens with Law's character, then follows his estranged wife Rachel Weisz as she tries to break off her hot and heavy affair with younger lover Juliano Cazarré; Vulture's got an exclusive, Nsfw clip from that section of the movie, and let's just say that if Weisz was hoping to call things off, she ends up in a very different position by the end of the scene. 360 premieres on VOD today.
- 6/29/2012
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
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