About to premiere at Cannes, “Destination Motel” There was a teaser released this Wednesday (15). Watch below. The Brazilian film entered the 2024 Official Selection of the French film festival and competes for the Palme d'Or. The first showing of the title is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 22nd.
In the plot, the location on a roadside on the coast of Ceará that gives its name to the film is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the motel's daily life. The totally vulnerable runaway boy crosses paths with a woman trapped by the dynamics of an abusive marriage. Iago Xavier , Nataly Rocha It is Fabio Assunção star in the production.
The film is by the filmmaker Karim Aïnouz , which returns to Cannes for the sixth time and for the second consecutive year in the Official Selection. Last year, he competed with “Firebrand”, your first English-language project.
“It’s always very exciting to have a film selected for the Cannes Festival . Even though it's my sixth time here, it feels like the first. It was there that I debuted with 'Madame Satan ', more than 20 years ago, I exhibited at Directors' Fortnight 'Silver Abyss ' and I was awarded 'The Invisible Life ' at the Un Certain Regard exhibition. It was at the festival that I shared with the general public 'Mountain Sailor ', such a personal film about my parents' story, and also 'Firebrand '”, celebrates the director.
Another five Brazilian productions will be shown at the 77th edition of the Cannes Festival in different sections. know more here .
See the complete list of films competing in the Official Cannes Selection
- “All We Imagine as Light” by Payal Kapadia
- “Anora” by Sean Baker
- “Bird” by Andrea Arnold
- “Diamant Brut”, by Agathe Riedinger
- “Emilia Perez”, by Jacques Audiard
- “Feng Liu Yi Dai” by Jia Zhang-ke
- “Grand Tour”, by Miguel Gomes
- “L'Amour Ouf”, by Gilles Lelouche
- “La Plus Précieuse des Marchandises”, by Michel Hazanavicius
- “Limonov – The Ballad”, by Kiril Serebrennikov
- “Marcello Mio”, by Christophe Honoré
- “Megalopolis”, by Francis Ford Coppola
- “Motel Destino”, by Karim Aïnouz
- “Oh Canada” by Paul Schrader
- “Parthenope”, by Paolo Sorrentino
- “Pigen Med Nalen” by Magnus Von Horn
- “Types of Kindness”, by Yorgos Lanthimos
- “The Apprentice” by Ali Abbassi
- “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof
- “The Shrouds” by David Cronenberg
- “The Substance” by Coralie Fargeat
- “Trei Kilometri Pana La Capatul Lumii”, by Emanuel Parvu
Watch the teaser
Source: CNN Brasil
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