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Futuro Beach

2014 · 106 min

A slow, intimate plunge into guilt and displacement, with sun-bleached beaches and cold Berlin streets mirroring a man's inner split.

Directed by: Karim Aïnouz
Genres: Drama
Starring: Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuíta Barbosa

Tagline: A hero split in half.
Overview: Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.

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Directed by: Karim Aïnouz
Genres: Drama
Starring: Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuíta Barbosa

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
identity
guilt
isolation
family
Places: big city
sea
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Karim Aïnouz
Written by: Karim Aïnouz, Marco Dutra, Felipe Bragança
Starring: Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuíta Barbosa, Sávio Ygor Ramos, Sophie Charlotte Conrad, Fred Lima, Thomás Aquino, Maj. Barreto
Music: Volker Bertelmann
Runtime: 106 min
Country: Brazil, Germany
Languages: German, English, Portuguese

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