How To Draw A Perfect Circle Movie

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

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Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.

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"Your circles may be perfect, but you still lose."

Indeed that line of dialogue, and there are not many throughout this insipid soporific pill of a picture, could not be more fitting. Like that line mentions, on an aesthetical ground everything may be meticulously controlled, but the end result is not more successful because of that. This coming-of-age tale about voyeurism and sexual repression is suffocated by an exceedingly stylized direction that gives no room for the narrative to breathe freely. The camera movements, the lightening and the dialogue are all wooden whilst the editing seems arbitrary, without any reasoning behind it (which makes sense because the film was cut more than twenty minutes after its short festival run). In the last moments the incestuous sex that had been promised is delivered, but somehow even the same fails to inject some energy and life to this pale and utterly lifeless feature.

[18/100]
Movie #8 in The December Project 2013
I'm going to write this one in Portuguese just because.
Ah, um filme português. Poucos vi na vida e tinha a ideia de ver Como Desenhar Um Círculo Perfeito há já algum tempo. Agora com o December Project decidi finalmente ver, e tinha grandes expectativas. Secalhar o problema foi mesmo esse.
Como Desenhar Um Círculo Perfeito foi um filme lento, monótono e aborrecido em geral. O que é pena pois sinto que os actores tinham tão mais para oferecer. Leva aos dois irmãos do filme a envolverem-se e basicamente é só isso. Desilusão.
I spent the majority of this movie furious with how it seemed to sympathise with a misogynistic incel frickwit of a predatory toolbag (the brother). It wasn't until nearly the end that I realized, "Oh... oh. That was the point. It wasn't sympathy at all. They were going somewhere with this."

And how. I've never had my opinion of a movie change so much, so quickly. Painful, arresting material.
O eterno duelo entre forma e conteúdo. Marco Martins tem uma habilidade inquestionável para filmar. A câmera passeia com elegância pelos cenários e registra os corpos com a intimidade que reflete as relações dos personagens. O diretor é bastante talentoso para criar esse clima de clausura familiar e isso dá o suporte necessário para que o protagonista ganhe solidez. No entanto, Martins se apoia demais na "ousadia" de seu plot e o filme parece estancado na proposta.
they sure did draw circles
I liked one sequence in this. I didn't mind the rest of it. I like style-over-substance films, but this one's style was bland. The analogies, the characters, the damn circles... they all produced nothing but a shrug as soon as the credits rolled.

Brooklyn S Double Feature with Beast / Sex in Film
que caralho foi esse que eu acabei de assistir
The Dreamers (2003), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, but make it portuguese