During Carnival in São Paulo, a young man and young woman who knew each other as children meet again after many years and the social barriers that have kept them apart. Bad decisions lead the boy to hide with the girl inside a whale float.
Cinematography
Carnival colors clash with suffocating whale interior
Acting
Jesuíta Barbosa's desperate unraveling
Direction
Lô Politi traps beauty and horror together
Director
Lô Politi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during actual São Paulo Carnival, the cast navigated real crowds while shooting the kinetic opening sequences.
The whale float references both the biblical Jonah and Brazil's carnival tradition of massive allegorical floats, collapsing sacred and profane.
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