Motel Destino dir. Karim Aïnouz (2024)

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Motel Destino dir. Karim Aïnouz (2024)
Motel Destino Karim Aïnouz. 2024
Canyon Praia do Morro Branco, Ceará, Brazil See in map
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Motel Destino 🇧🇷 2024
Motel Destino constrói sua força ao transformar o desejo em atmosfera. As cores saturadas intensificam o calor, a pulsão e o risco, tirando o filme do realismo neutro e jogando o espectador num estado febril onde erotismo e violência se confundem.
O silêncio imposto pelo letreiro, quebrado apenas por gemidos, não é ausência de som, mas de palavra e de ética — tudo é exposto sem ser nomeado, o que nos coloca como cúmplices e voyeurs. Nesse espaço, as identidades se dissolvem: ninguém é plenamente algo, só corpos reagindo.
O personagem de Fábio Assunção encarna esse colapso de fronteiras; seu desejo pelo hóspede existe, mas não se organiza em rótulos — é fluido, atravessado por poder, ameaça e projeção. A cena da dança funciona como descarga dessa tensão acumulada, exteriorizando o caos interno e confirmando que, ali, o desejo vem antes do nome e da moral.
Iago Xavier
Photography by Luciano Pedro Jr.
Motel Destino (2024), Karim Aïnouz
Motel Destino Karim Aïnouz. 2024
Motel ANTIGA CE, 040 – lagoinha, Beberibe – CE, 62840-000, Brazil See in map
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Motel Destino (Karim Aïnouz, 2024)
Nataly Rocha and Iago Xavier in Motel Destino
Cast: Iago Xavier, Nataly Rocha, Fábio Assunção, Renan Capivara, Fabiola Liper, Isabela Catão, Yuri Yamamoto, David Santos, Jupyra Carvalho, Bertrand de Courville. Screenplay: Weislan Esmeraldo, Karim Aïnouz, Mauricio Zacharias. Cinematography: Hélène Louvart. Production design: Marcos Pedroso. Film editing: Nelly Quettier. Music: Amine Bouhafa.
Karim Aïnouz's Motel Destino borrows from The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946; Bob Rafelson, 1981) and gives it Brazilian color and rhythm. In a coastal city in Brazil, the young mechanic Heraldo (Iago Xavier) wakes up locked in a room in a sex hotel to find that he's been robbed by the woman he spent the night with. He bargains with Dayana (Nataly Rocha), who runs the Motel Destino with her husband, Elias (Fábio Assunção), to let him out, leaving his identification card with the promise that he'll return to pay for the room. He's already deep in trouble: The delay in getting sprung from the room means that he's missed a crucial assignment from his gangster boss, a woman known as Bambina (Fabiola Liper), in the course of which Heraldo's brother, Jorge (Renan Capivara), has been killed. Desperate to escape the wrath of Bambina, Heraldo returns to the Motel Destino, where he arranges with Dayana to hide out. He winds up being employed by Elias, who takes a fancy to the young man. Dayana takes a bit more than a fancy, and before long she and Heraldo begin to plot a way to escape from Elias's brutish control. The lurid setting, in which we hear the motel's clientele rather than see them, gives the film a sweaty intensity, and the three principal actors are up to the demands the script makes on them. Hélène Louvart's near-hallucinatory use of color turns this neo-noir into a neon noir.
Motel Destino
directed by Karim Aïnouz, 2024