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| native_name = {{Infobox name module|pt|A Nuvem Rosa}}
| director = Iuli Gerbase
| director = Iuli Gerbase
| producer = Patricia Barbieri
| writer = Iuli Gerbase
| writer = Iuli Gerbase
| producer = Patricia Barbieri
| starring = {{Plainlist|
| starring = {{Plainlist|
* Renata de Lélis
* Renata de Lélis
* [[Eduardo Mendonça]]
* Eduardo Mendonça
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| music = Caio Amon
| cinematography = Bruno Polidoro
| cinematography = Bruno Polidoro
| editing = Vicente Moreno
| editing = Vicente Moreno
| music = Caio Amon
| studio = Prana Filmes
| studio = Prana Filmes
| distributor = O2 Play
| distributor = O2 Play
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2021|1|29|[[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]}}
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|2021|1|29|[[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance]]|2021|8|26|Brazil}}
| runtime = 105 minutes
| runtime = 105 minutes
| country = Brazil
| country = Brazil
| language = Portuguese
| language = Portuguese
| budget =
| budget =
| gross = $23,733<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt3548874/|title=The Pink Cloud (2021)|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=1 May 2023}}</ref>
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'''''The Pink Cloud''''' ({{lang-pt|A Nuvem Rosa}}) is a 2021 Brazilian [[Science fiction film|science fiction]] [[thriller film]] written and directed by Iuli Gerbase in her directional debut.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sundance-the-pink-cloud-iuli-gerbase-trailer-1234854002/|title=Sundance-Bound Brazilian Sci-fi Thriller 'The Pink Cloud' Debuts First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=John|last=Hopewell|date=15 December 2020|accessdate=2 January 2021}}</ref> The film stars Renata de Lélis, [[Eduardo Mendonça]], Kaya Rodrigues, Helena Becker and Girley Paes.
'''''The Pink Cloud''''' ({{langx|pt|A Nuvem Rosa}}) is a 2021 Brazilian [[Science fiction film|science fiction]] [[thriller film]] written and directed by Iuli Gerbase in her directional debut.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sundance-the-pink-cloud-iuli-gerbase-trailer-1234854002/|title=Sundance-Bound Brazilian Sci-fi Thriller 'The Pink Cloud' Debuts First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|first=John|last=Hopewell|date=15 December 2020|access-date=2 January 2021}}</ref> The setting of the story in the film has been compared to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], although written and directed earlier, in 2017 and 2019 respectively.<ref name="VTR-20220121">{{cite news |last=Ebiri |first=Bilge |title=Can a Movie Be ''Too'' Prescient? |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/film-review-the-pink-cloud-an-eerily-prescient-sci-fi-tale.html |date=21 January 2022 |website=[[Vulture (website)|Vulture]] |access-date=21 January 2022 |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122133519/https://www.vulture.com/article/film-review-the-pink-cloud-an-eerily-prescient-sci-fi-tale.html |archive-date=22 January 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> The film stars Renata de Lélis, Eduardo Mendonça, Kaya Rodrigues, Helena Becker and Girley Paes.


The film had its world premiere at the [[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]] on 29 January 2021.<ref name=Sundance>{{cite web|url= https://fpg.festival.sundance.org/film-info/5fd043008e9fe336d333c2e4 |title= Sundance - FPG |website= Sundance |accessdate=2 January 2021}} {{deadlink|date=November 2021}}</ref>
The film had its world premiere at the [[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]] on 29 January 2021. It was released theatrically in Brazil on 26 August 2021 by O2 Play.


==Cast==
==Cast==
The cast include:<ref name="VarietyInsight">{{cite web|url=https://www.varietyinsight.com/production_restart_full_view.php?track_id=186294 | title=Film and TV Projects Going Into Production - The Pink Cloud|website=[[Variety Insight]] |access-date=24 March 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324221949/https://www.varietyinsight.com/production_restart_full_view.php?track_id=186294 |archive-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
The cast include:<ref name="VarietyInsight">{{cite web|url=https://www.varietyinsight.com/production_restart_full_view.php?track_id=186294 | title=Film and TV Projects Going Into Production The Pink Cloud|website=[[Variety Insight]] |access-date=24 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324221949/https://www.varietyinsight.com/production_restart_full_view.php?track_id=186294 |archive-date=24 March 2021}}</ref>
* Renata de Lélis as Giovana
* Renata de Lélis as Giovana
* Eduardo Mendonça as Yago
* Eduardo Mendonça as Yago
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* Helena Becker as Júlia
* Helena Becker as Júlia
* Girley Paes as Rui
* Girley Paes as Rui

==Plot==
Giovana and Yago meet and have a one-night stand. The next morning a shelter-in-place order occurs when a mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears. They are forced to shelter together.

When the lockdown first begins, they communicate with family and friends via phone and video chat. Giovana tells her mother on the phone that she met Yago yesterday. Giovana’s friend is trapped at home alone because her partner went to the bakery. Yago’s father, who may have dementia or another illness, is isolated with his nurse. Giovana’s kid sister is isolated at a sleepover with a friend’s family.

The passage of time is apparent when her sister says her friend’s father is rationing food. Eventually, the government delivers food to homes via an interconnected tube system and drones.

A capitalist economy appears to continue under the new world order. Giovana and Yago purchase products through the tube system to cope with their isolation. Yago is financially strained because he must pay his father's nurse's salary, but is unable to work because he is a chiropractor. Giovana is a web developer and helps him financially.

Yago and Giovana's mostly platonic relationship gradually becomes more sexual. Despite sharing that she never wanted children, Giovana becomes pregnant. She gives birth to a boy with a doctor assisting with the delivery via video chat.

Their son, Lino, celebrates multiple birthdays in isolation. Giovana struggles with her mental health and feels that Yago is not aware of what is happening in the world. She follows the news online and seeks updates about the pink cloud. Yago, however, copes by hovering somewhere between denial and radical acceptance. To help her cope, Giovana and Yago try to develop a more intimate relationship, but Yago is not as committed as Giovana. Frustrated, Giovana says she wants to separate. They live separately on the two separate floors of the home, and Lino moves between them every 3 days. They rarely spend time together.

Giovana’s friend has now been alone in her home for years and is extremely depressed. Her doctor prescribes anti-depressants and she buys a robot dog. Giovana’s teenage sister, still isolated at her friend's slumber party, tells Giovana two of her friends are pregnant. The father of the other friend has been using them for sex. Giovana, horrified, offers to send them contraceptives.

Yago’s father is extremely ill and has stopped taking his meds because his nurse has died. Yago suspects his father killed the nurse because he had threatened to kill him previously. Yago stops calling his father because he doesn’t remember who Yago is.

Having been born indoors and never experienced the outside world, Lino doesn’t think of the pink cloud as a bad thing. Perhaps due to his son’s innocent appreciation of it, Yago begins to follow some kind of pink cloud-related religion that involves wearing a pink rope around his neck. He has come to fully accept his life at home with his son.

Yago begins to have sex with a woman online. Giovana has “window sex” with a neighbour. Eventually, Yago and Giovana get back together and they live as a family again. Lino and Yago buy Giovana a virtual reality headset and she quickly becomes addicted to it. She spends almost all of her time with the headset on the beach until Lino destroys it.

At one point it seems like there may be a chance the pink cloud is disappearing. A green cloud that looks like the northern lights appears in the sky in lieu of the pink cloud. Giovana fully believes she will be free, and is even packing and chatting with friends about meeting in person. After what seems to be a matter of days, the green cloud disappears, and for just a moment, the sky looks normal. Giovana is visibly elated, but within seconds the pink cloud returns.

Giovana walks out onto the balcony. She counts to ten and the scene ends before the pink cloud can have any effect on her.


==Release==
==Release==
The film had its world premiere at the [[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]] on 29 January 2021 in the ''World Cinema Dramatic Competition'' section.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sundance-film-festival-announces-2021-lineup-1234854059/|title=Sundance Film Festival Lineup Features 38 First-Time Directors, Including Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright|website=Variety|first=Peter|last=Debruge|date=15 December 2020|accessdate=2 January 2021}}</ref>
The film had its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the [[2021 Sundance Film Festival|Sundance Film Festival]] on 29 January 2021.<ref name=Sundance>{{cite web |url= https://fpg.festival.sundance.org/film-info/5fd043008e9fe336d333c2e4 |title= Sundance – FPG |publisher= [[Sundance Film Festival]] |access-date= 2 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210113115737/https://fpg.festival.sundance.org/film-info/5fd043008e9fe336d333c2e4 |archive-date= 13 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sundance-film-festival-announces-2021-lineup-1234854059/|title=Sundance Film Festival Lineup Features 38 First-Time Directors, Including Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright|magazine=Variety|first=Peter|last=Debruge|date=15 December 2020|access-date=2 January 2021}}</ref> It was released theatrically in Brazil on 26 August 2021 by O2 Play.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmeb.com.br/calendario-de-estreias/nuvem-rosa|title=A nuvem rosa|website=Filme B|language=pt-BR|access-date=1 May 2023}}</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==
The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] surveyed {{nowrap|31 critics}} and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 31 as positive and 0 as negative for a [[List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes|100%]] rating. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 7.5 out of 10. The critics consensus reads "An eerily relevant debut from writer-director Iuli Gerbase, ''The Pink Cloud'' reaches into the emotional fault lines of pandemic life and comes away with striking observations about human behavior."<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=The Pink Cloud (2021) Reviews|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_pink_cloud|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=8 March 2021|publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>
On the [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "An eerily relevant debut from writer-director Iuli Gerbase, ''The Pink Cloud'' reaches into the emotional fault lines of pandemic life and comes away with striking observations about human behavior."<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pink Cloud (2021) Reviews|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_pink_cloud|access-date=7 December 2021|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 18:49, 1 November 2024

The Pink Cloud
Theatrical release poster
PortugueseA Nuvem Rosa
Directed byIuli Gerbase
Written byIuli Gerbase
Produced byPatricia Barbieri
Starring
  • Renata de Lélis
  • Eduardo Mendonça
CinematographyBruno Polidoro
Edited byVicente Moreno
Music byCaio Amon
Production
company
Prana Filmes
Distributed byO2 Play
Release dates
  • 29 January 2021 (2021-01-29) (Sundance)
  • 26 August 2021 (2021-08-26) (Brazil)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese
Box office$23,733[1]

The Pink Cloud (Portuguese: A Nuvem Rosa) is a 2021 Brazilian science fiction thriller film written and directed by Iuli Gerbase in her directional debut.[2] The setting of the story in the film has been compared to the COVID-19 pandemic, although written and directed earlier, in 2017 and 2019 respectively.[3] The film stars Renata de Lélis, Eduardo Mendonça, Kaya Rodrigues, Helena Becker and Girley Paes.

The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on 29 January 2021. It was released theatrically in Brazil on 26 August 2021 by O2 Play.

Cast

[edit]

The cast include:[4]

  • Renata de Lélis as Giovana
  • Eduardo Mendonça as Yago
  • Kaya Rodrigues as Sara
  • Helena Becker as Júlia
  • Girley Paes as Rui

Plot

[edit]

Giovana and Yago meet and have a one-night stand. The next morning a shelter-in-place order occurs when a mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears. They are forced to shelter together.

When the lockdown first begins, they communicate with family and friends via phone and video chat. Giovana tells her mother on the phone that she met Yago yesterday. Giovana’s friend is trapped at home alone because her partner went to the bakery. Yago’s father, who may have dementia or another illness, is isolated with his nurse. Giovana’s kid sister is isolated at a sleepover with a friend’s family.

The passage of time is apparent when her sister says her friend’s father is rationing food. Eventually, the government delivers food to homes via an interconnected tube system and drones.

A capitalist economy appears to continue under the new world order. Giovana and Yago purchase products through the tube system to cope with their isolation. Yago is financially strained because he must pay his father's nurse's salary, but is unable to work because he is a chiropractor. Giovana is a web developer and helps him financially.

Yago and Giovana's mostly platonic relationship gradually becomes more sexual. Despite sharing that she never wanted children, Giovana becomes pregnant. She gives birth to a boy with a doctor assisting with the delivery via video chat.

Their son, Lino, celebrates multiple birthdays in isolation. Giovana struggles with her mental health and feels that Yago is not aware of what is happening in the world. She follows the news online and seeks updates about the pink cloud. Yago, however, copes by hovering somewhere between denial and radical acceptance. To help her cope, Giovana and Yago try to develop a more intimate relationship, but Yago is not as committed as Giovana. Frustrated, Giovana says she wants to separate. They live separately on the two separate floors of the home, and Lino moves between them every 3 days. They rarely spend time together.

Giovana’s friend has now been alone in her home for years and is extremely depressed. Her doctor prescribes anti-depressants and she buys a robot dog. Giovana’s teenage sister, still isolated at her friend's slumber party, tells Giovana two of her friends are pregnant. The father of the other friend has been using them for sex. Giovana, horrified, offers to send them contraceptives.

Yago’s father is extremely ill and has stopped taking his meds because his nurse has died. Yago suspects his father killed the nurse because he had threatened to kill him previously. Yago stops calling his father because he doesn’t remember who Yago is.

Having been born indoors and never experienced the outside world, Lino doesn’t think of the pink cloud as a bad thing. Perhaps due to his son’s innocent appreciation of it, Yago begins to follow some kind of pink cloud-related religion that involves wearing a pink rope around his neck. He has come to fully accept his life at home with his son.

Yago begins to have sex with a woman online. Giovana has “window sex” with a neighbour. Eventually, Yago and Giovana get back together and they live as a family again. Lino and Yago buy Giovana a virtual reality headset and she quickly becomes addicted to it. She spends almost all of her time with the headset on the beach until Lino destroys it.

At one point it seems like there may be a chance the pink cloud is disappearing. A green cloud that looks like the northern lights appears in the sky in lieu of the pink cloud. Giovana fully believes she will be free, and is even packing and chatting with friends about meeting in person. After what seems to be a matter of days, the green cloud disappears, and for just a moment, the sky looks normal. Giovana is visibly elated, but within seconds the pink cloud returns.

Giovana walks out onto the balcony. She counts to ten and the scene ends before the pink cloud can have any effect on her.

Release

[edit]

The film had its world premiere in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the Sundance Film Festival on 29 January 2021.[5][6] It was released theatrically in Brazil on 26 August 2021 by O2 Play.[7]

Reception

[edit]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 60 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "An eerily relevant debut from writer-director Iuli Gerbase, The Pink Cloud reaches into the emotional fault lines of pandemic life and comes away with striking observations about human behavior."[8]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "The Pink Cloud (2021)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  2. ^ Hopewell, John (15 December 2020). "Sundance-Bound Brazilian Sci-fi Thriller 'The Pink Cloud' Debuts First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  3. ^ Ebiri, Bilge (21 January 2022). "Can a Movie Be Too Prescient?". Vulture. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Film and TV Projects Going Into Production – The Pink Cloud". Variety Insight. Archived from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Sundance – FPG". Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 13 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  6. ^ Debruge, Peter (15 December 2020). "Sundance Film Festival Lineup Features 38 First-Time Directors, Including Rebecca Hall and Robin Wright". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. ^ "A nuvem rosa". Filme B (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  8. ^ "The Pink Cloud (2021) Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
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