
Donato works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After he saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional connection. He decides to leave everything behind, including his ailing mother and younger brother, Ayrton, to travel back to Berlin with Konrad. There, he finds both confusion a... (Full plot summary below)
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Donato works as a lifeguard at the spectacular but treacherous Praia do Futuro beach in Brazil; Konrad is an ex-military thrill-seeker from Germany vacationing with a friend. After he saves Konrad from drowning, but fails to save his other friend, initial sexual sparks give way to a deeper, emotional connection. He decides to leave everything behind, including his ailing mother and younger brother, Ayrton, to travel back to Berlin with Konrad. There, he finds both confusion and liberation, and his journey for love soon turns into a deeper search for his own identity. Eight years later, an unexpected visit from Ayrton, brings all three men back together as they struggle to reconcile the pain of loss and longing, instinctively drawn to each other in search of hope and a brighter future.
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| RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireIts considerable satisfactions ... come mainly from the way the story is told, which spells nothing out, and in fact is so reticent that the viewer is constantly drawn into the creation of meaning. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUm filme de ideias ambiciosas e abordagem corajosa. |
| Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiIf director-co-writer Karim Aïnouz has set out to depict soulless gay lives, he has more than succeeded. |
| Empire MagazineLiz BeardsworthKarim Aïnouz's film is a beautifully shot, melancholy meditation on identity, loneliness and love. |
| GuardianLeslie FelperinAn immensely likable movie, impeccably acted and wise about the nature of exile. |
| Contactmusic.comRich ClineWith an approach that emphasises internal feelings and character journeys, over more obvious things like narrative structure and story arcs... |
| The ListAlan LaidlawFuturo Beach resists easy definition; life is full of blurred lines and Aïnouz knows it. |
| SF WeeklySherilyn ConnellyBut if you can't find happiness either on a beautiful but frequently lethal beach or a bustling but grim Berlin, where can you? Futuro Beach doesn't know, either. |
| Movie MezzanineAndy CrumpThe amount of "stuff" that can be read out of Futuro Beach makes the film sound perhaps a bit cacophonous. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisBalancing its abstract storytelling with commanding visuals (by the gifted cinematographer Ali Olcay Gözkaya), "Futuro Beach" explores liberation and reinvention, the tug of familiarity versus the allure of the foreign. |