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Levante (2023)

Drama | 99 minutes
3,50 9 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 99 minuten

Alternative title: Power Alley

Country: Brazil / France / Uruguay

Directed by: Lillah Halla

Stars: Domenica Dias, Grace Passô and Rômulo Braga

IMDb score: 6,7 (353)

Releasedate: 23 May 2023

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Levante plot

The promising volleyball player Sofia is seventeen years old and is on the eve of a competition that could change her future forever. However, an unwanted pregnancy throws a spanner in the works. She wants to have an abortion, but this puts her in the crosshairs of a fundamentalist group that wants to prevent her from doing so at all costs. Neither Sofia nor her close ones intend to tie in.

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Hannibal

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Beautiful film that stirs up all kinds of emotions. The young women act incredibly well and the sisterhood in this film is moving to see. In my opinion, a top film that is incredibly queer without emphasizing it. And a film that once again makes it abundantly clear why abortion must be removed from the Criminal Code worldwide and that trying to stop it should be included immediately, in my opinion.

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mrklm

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17-year-old Sofia [Ayomi Domenica] is the star player of a Brazilian youth volleyball team that also stands out for its inclusivity. When a scout [Gláucia Vandeveld] lets her know that she has a chance to play professionally in Chile if she maintains her form, it seems like a dream come true. This falls apart when Sofia turns out to be pregnant. In strict Catholic Brazil, abortion is a taboo, so to end her pregnancy she must look to “levante” (the east), or Uruguay. When a fundamentalist organization discovers that it is considering abortion, the consequences of its choice become increasingly serious. Apart from the diversity of the cast, this ethical social drama has nothing new to report on this theme. The volleyball scenes are also filmed rather clumsily, meaning the enthusiastic cast is never entirely convincing.

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