Rodrigo Santoro and Denise Weinberg in a scene from ‘The Blue Trail’ by Gabriel Mascaro
While another Cannes title may be a heavy contender for Brazil’s submission to the Best International Feature Film category for the Oscars this year, I would argue that the reason the previous Brazilian film fared so well in last year’s award season race is one: an extraordinary woman at the center of its story.
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I crave for a film to do something more than entertain me, when I sit down to write about it. A work of the 7th art has to change me. I need to feel like something magical clicked deep inside me to walk out of a theater, or in this case the room where I watch my TV, and sit to pen my thoughts. ‘The Two Popes’ did that. It not only showed me a different side to a story I thought I already knew — the changing of the guard between one pope and the other in 2013 — but also reinterpreted a character, former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio now Pope Francis, in a way that changed my negative opinion of him. And I know at least one other person who felt the same way, my movie-watching partner.
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