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Brandon CronenbergArgumento:
Brandon CronenbergCâmara:
Karim HussainMúsica:
E. C. WoodleyElenco:
Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith, Salvatore Antonio, Nicholas Campbell, Josh Holliday, Vincent Thomas, Lara Jean Chorostecki (mais)Sinopses(1)
Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate. (Rialto Distribution)
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Ver isto numa altura em que está em casa a lutar contra um vírus forte é uma delícia por excelência. Um filme antipático em todos os aspetos, com um tema satírico relevante e uma forma estéril. Muito de branco no qual se destaca melhor o sangue da tosse espasmódico, injeções com vírus do herpes, o consumo de carne, feito no laboratório a partir de células humanas. Desculpe, a partir das células de celebridades admiradas. «Celebrities are not people. They’re group hallucinations.» Antiviral poderia entreter-me numa duração consciente de 80 minutos, mas não desta forma. Gosto de estreias bizarras de cineastas originais, de outra forma.
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Very sick, very hard to watch, very Cronenberg. The comparisons with David Cronenberg’s early works would apply to Antiviral even if it was made by someone completely unrelated. It has many layers, even though the visual impression is different. And it’s actually the visual impression (the white glitz of the clinic against the nastiness that bubbles here and there) and the perverted atmosphere the main basis for my rating so far. I put it on sometime after midnight and I nodded a couple of times (it’s not exactly packed with action :-D). It needs at least one more viewing, but the film is certainly interesting.
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Brandon Cronenberg does not deny his origins here, and so he presents a rather visceral and stomach-churning body horror which is a scathing satirical comment on contemporary society. Antiviral is based on a great idea - perfect for a short film. The only real problem with this movie is that Cronenberg has selfishly stretched it out to a lengthy 108 minutes.
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