Review | Marte Um – The film chosen to represent Brazil at the Oscars is touching and BRILLIANT

Reflection and clashes between dreams and reality. The dream of an expedition to Mars in 2030 ends up being the start of a beautiful film, which details the dreams in a larger context, that of hope. Directed by Gabriel Martins, Marte Um was chosen to represent Brazil in the Best Foreign Film category at the 2023 Oscars and shows us the hectic daily life of a family from an urban perspective that travels through the stories of a society that lives its days without know how tomorrow will be. There is also a delicate look at the generational gap when we reflect on ways of seeing change, of dreaming.

Showing at Sundance Film Festival and Gramado Film Festival this year, Marte Um, set in the final months of the last election year (2018), tells the story of a family who lives on the outskirts of a big city. mining. She has her father, Wellington (Carlos Francisco), who is a doorman at a luxury condominium and is dealing with his sobriety after hard drinking issues. We have the mother, Tércia (Rejane Faria), super cheerful and dancing, who after a traumatic prank begins to have her routine accompanied by fears and afflictions. We have the eldest daughter, Eunice (Camilla Damião), a young student who studies law at the Federal University and who begins a relationship with another young woman and has the desire to move but still does not have the courage to do so. tell his parents. We have the youngest son, Deivid (Cícero Lucas) a young dreamer who loves football and enjoys astronomy, spending hours consuming this content on the internet. Thus, we follow the story of a family in difficulty, which finds its answers between errors and successes, in hope and reflection.

Some people’s dreams are someone else’s dreams. The movie hits that dreamy touch. Deivid doesn’t want to be a footballer, his father’s dream which ends up leaving the boy conflicted. He wants to be an astrophysicist, to be an astronaut, to embark on an expedition to colonize another planet years before his present. At the same time, Eunice doubts her parents’ reaction when they learn that she is dating another young woman. The more detailed understanding of these dreams results in the strengthening of the relationship of the two brothers.

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Frustration and disappointment. Luck and bad luck. Balance and imbalance. Fall down and get up. Here, in these duels, we follow from the point of view of the parents. Tercia seems to live in a bubble of fear and apprehension caused by a trauma that she doesn’t know when will end, letting fate play its part. Wellington fights for control but gradually realizes that lack of control is one of the uncontrollable variables of all trajectories. Alcoholism, unemployment, fear of prejudice, are other themes that cross the lines of the big screenplay.

How are our dreams in a politically polarized country, still full of social inequalities, still full of prejudices? The characters here are looking for what everyone else is looking for, hoping for. The rest… we’ll find a way.

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