Behind The Sun
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Movie Reviews of Behind The Sun
Movie Review: Good movie
Summary: 4 Stars
It's no Central Station (Central do Brasil), but this movie is a good one. I'm a fan of Brazilian cinema, and I'll be adding this one to my list of favorites. It's a touching movie about a young guy caught in the middle of a family feud. His brother has been killed and now the weight of his family's honor and tradition..etc, becomes his burden to carry. The movie is basically about how he chooses to deal with the situation. For anyone studying the portuguese language, the portuguese in this movie isn't very hard to understand.Movie Review: I want to love it...
Summary: 3 Stars
But alas, I only like it.Firstly, let me say that this film is absolutely gorgeous- quite honestly frame for frame one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. Visually stunning, I felt like pausing and just staring at the palette of colors, the scenery, and the beautiful people- and that this reaction may be a problem.
I can't help feeling that the story, a simple revenge fable, should have been stronger, or the scenes stronger. Alas, in the end, it was prettier than it was deep. It's meant to be like a short poem, able to give a handful of emotions. Instead it plays about like a small story in really neat handwriting, on very fine perfumed paper.
As a dvd, well, its typical for Miramax. The film is there, nothing else.
Movie Review: Behind the curve
Summary: 2 Stars
"Behind the Sun" is a kind of fable, I guess, about a small family of Brazilian sugar cane farmers. They are struggling to make it in competition with a larger family up the road. The rivalry between the families grows into a blood feud. One day, the circus comes to town in the shape of a beautiful girl and her stepfather. The small family's oldest son falls in love with the girl and runs off with her on a last gasp of fun before he meets his fate as the feud's next target.
The cinematography is great, with grand expressive shots of bloody shirts hanging on clotheslines and a memorable scene of a girl being twirled on a rope. There just isn't much story though, and what there is gets awfully confusing. "Behind the Sun" is a story about family rivalry, honor and love, but it made precious little sense to me. There may be layers and layers of symbolic action here, but I couldn't care enough to look for them. A real miss.