Baby
Sun
17
Sun 17 Nov 6:15 PM
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ACMI Cinema 1
Wheelchair
Allocated Seating
MELBOURNE PREMIERE
When Wellington (João Pedro Mariano) gets out of two years’ juvenile detention to discover his no-good parents have skipped town, the São Paulo teenager refuses to collapse. Falling in with old mates, a chance encounter with forty-something Ronaldo (Ricardo Teodoro) outside a porn cinema leads to a surreal relationship somewhere between lover, father and sex work business. Reborn as Baby, a reclaimed insult, he soon thrives in the role in this deeply humanistic new movie from Body Electric director Marcelo Caetano in which a found family, including Ronaldo’s ex Priscilla (Ana Flavia Cavalcanti) and her girlfriend (Bruna Linzmeyer), recalibrates what it means to belong. Nominated for the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, far from Ken Loach-like miserabilism, it radiates optimisim set to a sparkling pop score.
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