#Seashore movie movie
It’s more than an hour into the movie before it even becomes clear that Tomaz is openly gay and Martin is aware of this. Only the next day, when Tomaz is hung over and Martin has made something of a breakthrough with his grandpa’s family does the distance start to dissolve between them. They spring apart again, and Martin sleeps with one of the girls at the party while Tomaz gets drunk to escape the advances of another. When Tomaz’s old friend Natalia ( Elisa Brites) attempts to nudge them together during a small gathering at the house, their mutual awkwardness becomes uncomfortable. But the conversation is mostly impersonal, even dull. The directors stir in teasing hints of an erotic undercurrent, such as having them sit side by side on a couch playing a videogame with what looks like masturbatory frenzy. Joao Gabriel de Quieroz‘s handheld camera crowds in on the two characters with probing intensity, but for much of the running time they avoid emotional openness. The deserted beach under a cold gray sky, backed by the somber accompaniment of wind and waves, provides the backdrop against which Martin and Tomaz shuffle around their unresolved feelings toward one another. That would certainly explain the chilly welcome given to Martin when he attempts to carry out his assigned task. They stay in a large beach house belonging to Martin’s father, who is depicted indirectly as a difficult and unyielding man. Tomaz ( Mauricio Jose Barcellos) accompanies him, seemingly hoping to regain some of their former closeness. Martin ( Mateus Almada) has been sent by his father to retrieve what appears to be an inheritance-related document from the family of his recently deceased, estranged grandfather on the extreme southern coast. Discovery to Divest in Right-Leaning U.K.
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