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Futuro Beach

A hero split in half.

2014 · 1h 46m · UNRATED Drama
Directed by Karim Aïnouz

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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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If director-co-writer Karim Ainouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded.

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Ainouz ends his film with a poetic flair that feels right. You have to just let it wash over you, like the waters of a familiar beach.

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh

Balancing its abstract storytelling with commanding visuals (by the gifted cinematographer Ali Olcay Gozkaya), "Futuro Beach" explores liberation and reinvention, the tug of familiarity versus the allure of the foreign.

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh

Futuro Beach is as strong on texture as narrative.

Steve Erickson, Village Voice

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