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SIFF Dispatches: GOING TO BRAZIL

Posted By Julius Kassendorf on July 14, 2017 in Reviews | 167 Responses

I’d like to end my SIFF dispatches on a sunny and happier note. Billed as a The Hangover-styled movie, Going to Brazil is a French alcohol-fueled comedy about sexual assault and murder. Actually, this has less in common with The Hangover and more in common with Bachelorette. Three French female friends reluctantly travel in Rio for a fourth friend’s wedding, after that friend had ditched the group without notice. But, everybody here is kind of bitchy. The bride totally ditches the friends in Brazil when she is pulled out of town by her Brazilian friends for a remote bachelorette party. Meanwhile, the four friends find a party where one of them is sexually assaulted and accidentally kills the guy in self defense. Guess who the guy is? Anyways, drug dealers, mob bosses, and government agents are involved in the friends’ journey to get back to France.

Your enjoyment of this movie will depend on how much you enjoy asshole characters trying to figure a way out of their OUTRAGEOUS situation. Once I tuned into the acidic channel this movie was operating on (and not the same outrageous tone as The Hangover), I found myself enjoying the women sniping at each other. Whether they were ruining the wedding by arguing over who needs to comfort the bride to trying to figure out what is the best way to deal with the female hardass drug kingpin, their sniping grew on me as the movie went on.

But, I also think some of this is lost in translation. There’s a surprise guest that pops out in a scene in much the same manner as Ken Jeong did in The Hangover. When Ken Jeong popped out of the trunk in The Hangover, it was not a star making role; many comedy fans had already been seeing him in Pineapple Express, Knocked Up, The Office and Community. Here, the guy who pops up is nobody I recognized (but he may be familiar to French viewers). Herein lies the rub…how much of this movie is dependent on people knowing the actors/actresses? And how much is from the script? I didn’t know anybody in this movie, yet I found it funny. Still, I wonder.

Anyways, I don’t have much to say about Going to Brazil other than its a decent lark but one I’ll probably forget by this time next year. It’s the perfect type of movie for sitting in an air-conditioned theater and seeing something randomly delightful.

Posted in Reviews | Tagged brazil, Comedy, Foreign, Foreign Language, France, Going to Brazil, Patrick Mille, Portugal, Seattle International Film Festival, SIFF

About the Author

Julius Kassendorf

Julius Kassendorf is the founder of The-Solute, and previously founded The Other FIlms and Project Runaways in 2013. There, he dabbled in form within reviews to better textualize thought processes about the medium of film.

Previously, he has blogged at other, now-defunct, websites that you probably haven’t heard of, and had a boyfriend in Canada for many years. Julius resides in Seattle, where he enjoys the full life of the Seattle Film Community.

Julius’ commanding rule about film: Don’t Be Common. He believes the worst thing in the world is for a film to be like every other film, with a secondary crime of being a film with little to no ambition.

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