Available to rent: Winner of Berlin’s Silver Bear award, Gabriel Mascaro's drama is a transfixing adventure about a pensioner fleeing a dystopian ageist society
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'A bountiful story of ageing womanhood.' |
Emily Maskell, Little White Lies |
In near future Brazil, elderly citizens must transfer their assets to their children before being rounded up and forced into government-run retirement camps. Having reached the mandated age, Tereza (Denise Weinberg) is desperate to keep her freedom, so she escapes and embarks on an illegal journey through the Amazon.
Political and unsentimental yet profoundly human, The Blue Trail is a fantastical and freewheeling Amazonian journey which won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize at Berlin Film Festival. |
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All roads lead to roam in this week’s big documentary, Our Land, which asks why so much English land is inaccessible. On another note, a German prankster returns with a comic masterpiece. Toni Erdmann stars the late Peter Simonischek, who trained as a dental technician and crafted his own outsized false teeth for his finest role… |
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