Divino Amor (2019)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 101 minuten
Alternative titles: Divine Love / Overgod
Country:
Brazil / Uruguay / Denmark / Norway / Chili
Directed by: Gabriel Mascaro
Stars: Dira Paes and Júlio Machado
IMDb score:
6,1 (2.425)
Releasedate: 27 June 2019
Divino Amor plot
"True love shares"
Joana, 42, is a devoted Christian who works for a notary. She uses her position to save failing marriages by inviting couples to a religious swingers club. While waiting to be recognized for her achievements, she finds herself in a marital crisis and expecting a baby who could be the next Messiah.
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Actors and actresses
Joana
Danilo
Pastor Drive Thru
Mestra Dalva
Lígia
Janice
Ana
Fred
Joana's Neighbor
Public Notary
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Anyone who remembers Theo van Gogh's "Blind Date" will probably immediately know how this will all end. "Divino Amor" is set in Brazil in 2027, when church and state are separated and traditional houses of worship have made way for religious groups and phenomena such as the Drive-In Pastor. The relationship between Joana [Dira Paes] and Danilo [Julio Machado] has been under pressure for some time because they have not been able to fulfill their desire to have children. The couple has ended up with a group called 'Divino Amor', which has given them back their faith in the future with children. Joana uses her position as a civil servant, which includes processing divorce petitions, to 'bring in' other couples and thus puts her job at stake. Despite all their efforts, Joana cannot get pregnant and increasingly seeks spiritual help from a Drive-In Pastor.
Dira Paes had to undress very often in a film that contains a striking number of sex scenes. Perhaps director Gabriel Mascaro wants to underline the hypocrisy of the Church, which advocates having children but rejects the physical pleasure of the sexual act, but despite the physically attractive cast you've seen it all after a while. And indeed, the 'surprise ending' was certainly not a surprise for me.
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
The film seems to want to criticize the explosive growth of the Protestant Pentecostal community in traditionally Catholic Brazil – without naming the religious blood groups anywhere – by showing a dystopian future Brazil in which society has been transformed into a kind of religious sect in which a new prudishness and total sacrifice for faith is linked to a religious obsession with family life, and therefore procreation, and therefore sex. This paradoxically leads to sex orgies, as we know them from real religious sects, which the film in turn links to the Catholic concept of the Holy Mary who became immaculately pregnant with the Messiah.
Together with the artistic images it is thus a film with many pretensions but the film never really becomes interesting. The film is mainly crazy but at the same time boring and does not stick, although the film could be realistic in how Protestantism takes shape in a Catholic country, precisely because of the paradoxes and absurdities that then arise.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
This was a disappointment. However, expectations were high when reading the synopsis. The plot was intriguing, but it barely came out. I even found it uninspired and boring at times.
Brazil is of course a very religious country and this film tries to translate that through the pursuit of perfect couples with children. It is even a must and the director points a moral finger when it turns out that conservative believers would be in charge. The film has a kind of dystopian atmosphere, especially when certain Christian values are enforced (or controlled) by the state.
But all in all it is too little. Too long, too many dead moments. The message did not touch me enough.
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