Perfect Endings (13 Sentimentos)

Synopsis

This searching, starry-eyed rom-com is a play of “tension and expectation” with a huge payoff. After ten years in a monogamous relationship, 32-year-old filmmaker João is single and ready to trawl through the apps to find Mr. Next, unprepared for the anxious entanglements to come. Writer-director Daniel Ribeiro, who wowed with 2014 (I+N27) Opening Film, The Way He Looks, introduces us to João (Artur Volpi), the Brazilian Goldilocks of dating. A bull-headed Taurus, he speeds through matches, unable to settle on the right rebound and flummoxed by the results when finding himself infatuated. He gets so desperate as to screenwrite his own romance into being and even hallucinate a lost love, with comical results. Throughout, his strongest chemistry is with his besties, gay “love atheist” Chico (Marcos Oli) and move-in allergic lesbian Alice (Julianna Gerais), who lend an ear and dole out advice over the umpteenth coffee of the day. Unexpectedly, it is in the wisdom of exes and the dynamics of partners he meets and—out of financial desperation—agrees to film for their OnlyFans accounts that João learns that love is not a formula. Chemistry speaks for itself.

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