Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor

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Movie
Original title Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor
Country of production Portugal , Brazil
original language Portuguese
Publishing year 2016
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Luís Galvão Teles
script Nuno Markl
production Luís Galvão Teles (Fado Films)
music Filipe Cardoso , João Tempera , Sérgio Godinho , Jorge Palma
camera Gustavo Hadba
cut Heroes Faria
occupation

Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor ( Portuguese for: lemonades and love songs) is a Portuguese film from 2016 by Portuguese director Luís Galvão Teles . The film combines musical comedy and romantic comedy, elements from pop culture, comedy and erotic can also be found, partly ironically broken.

action

The extremely popular music duo Lucas & Pedro split up after 15 successful years at the height of their careers. Their friendship is then put to the test: while Lucas composes well-paid advertising music after an unsuccessful solo album, Pedro is also back in the public spotlight as a successful solo artist. And then Lucas' relationship with Carla, who was the manager of the duo, breaks up as she chooses Pedro, with whom she has had a relationship for a long time. Having reached an emotional low point, Lucas increasingly lets himself go and now also endangers his assignments as an advertising composer.

Well-known musician Jorge Palma begins to appear delusional to Lucas and give advice. In the supermarket where Lucas usually goes to shop, the owner's son puts on background music as a DJ and is increasingly giving Lucas advice on finding suitable women for short adventures or new relationships by studying the shopping trolleys, for example. Lucas made the acquaintance of a pink dinosaur who advertised lemonades in the supermarket, for which Lucas created successful advertising songs. The dinosaur turns out to be a young woman who leaves the costume only unseen, because her ex-boyfriend secretly filmed her making love and the recordings ended up on porn sites and thus penetrated to her father, so that they no longer show themselves in public would like to. Lucas and the dinosaur get closer and also go out, but he still never sees her without the pink dinosaur costume. Despite differences, he falls in love with her and finds his way back through the desperate search for her when suddenly someone else is in a costume in the supermarket.

Meanwhile, Pedro is bored of his continued success and he starts thinking about increasing public affection and thus also his sales figures with a fictitious death. Carla is horrified and slowly alienates herself from Pedro, who is increasingly changing to the disadvantage in her eyes. Finally, Pedro secretly instructs the hit man Navalhas to carry out an attack on him during a public appearance, which is only supposed to bring him into a coma and not into the afterlife.

At the end, the paths of all the characters come together at the supermarket, and the film ends in a musical- like scene.

reception

The film is designed as a casual romantic and musical comedy for a wide audience. The popular comedian (including Os Contemporâneos -author and actor) and television and radio presenter Nuno Markl wrote the screenplay, his highly acclaimed debut as a screenwriter. The quality of the film songs and the renowned musicians and popular actors involved and the colorful film atmosphere and its contemporary, brisk and humorous, cheerful, romantic staging aroused expectations of visitor numbers that were not fully met afterwards. The popular Brazilian comedian Gregório Duvivier (known from Porta dos Fundos and many more) as a weird geek acquaintance in the supermarket, the convincingly comical supporting role of the well-known musician Sérgio Godinho as a hit man, or a guest appearance by the popular singer David Carreira could not make the film one blockbuster of Portuguese cinema make, however it was (fourth place in the ranking of local spectators Screenrush 2016) also no utter flop.

The film was released in Portuguese cinemas on August 25, 2016 and was released on DVD a few months later by NOS Audiovisuais .

Despite its audience orientation and its exclusively domestic focus, which is unusual for Portuguese films, the film also met with goodwill. The film was shown at several Portuguese film festivals and was also able to score several awards, including the awards for the best film music and the best artistic direction and the audience award at the renowned Caminhos do Cinema Português .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Presentation of Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor in the film section of the Público newspaper , accessed on December 8, 2019
  2. ↑ Blurb of the DVD edition, NOS Audiovisuais 2016
  3. ↑ Entry on Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor in the Portuguese film portal Cinevisão.pt, accessed on December 8, 2019
  4. ↑ Boxoffice Ranking List 2016 , PDF available from the Portuguese Film Institute Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual , accessed on December 8, 2019
  5. ↑ Nominations and awards for Refrigerantes e Canções de Amor in the Internet Movie Database , accessed on December 8, 2019