Dácio Pinheiro

May 13, 2024 | dmovies.org | Paul Risker |Laura Plancarte |Dácio Pinheiro |Kit Vincent

Norwegian director, Signe Rosenlund-Hauglid’s creatively expressive short film, A Home on Every Floor, is inescapably nostalgic. Yet beneath the wistful memories of its real-life character, Norwegian-Eritrean social geographer, activist and poet Hanna Asefaw, lies an ominous commentary about gentrification and economic inequality. Based on Asefaw’s poem Sannergata 32, her spoken word performance in the short film is merged with her childhood home reimagined in miniature form.

Nov 23, 2023 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Deborah Correa |Dácio Pinheiro

The film opens with the titular character (Joaquin Phoenix, bringing an uncertain birdlike quality to the performance), walking through the French debris, his eyes peering at the revolution on the streets. Electing to defeat the “Royalists and the English”, he rises through the social rankings, when he meets Joséphine (Vanessa Kirby, in a role that is weirdly underdeveloped, despite the actresses sterling credentials), and falls head over heels in love.

Jun 24, 2023 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Dácio Pinheiro

We never learn the names of the four women who share their most profound and intimate secrets with us for 89 minutes. We see their naked bodies in minute, graphic detail, thorough a number of extreme close-ups. Their skin dappled with tiny condensation droplets. A large breast collapsing to the sides while still confidently pointing upwards. A cleavage with nothing to conceal. Creases and stretch marks revealing that these characters are no longer in the spring of their lives.