Sun, Jun 13 2010 - Hotel Atlantico (Brazil) - Latin Wave film festival (View Original Event Details) Event Coordinator(s): Lynn R Participants: Lynn R, Jorinda, Isabel G, Lynn, Jim B

Hotel Atlantico follows a vagabond (apparently unemployed, as he has lots of time to wander aimlessly around) character we know only as the Artist on a long and seeminly pointless journey as he meets death and cinematic cliches at every turn. A dead body on a gurney as he checks into the hotel; a suicidally depressed woman on a bus, mourning the loss of her daughter; two characters in a bar who offer him a ride, with menacing intent (intent, I should note, that's so blatantly telegraphed one wonders that this man, or anyone, would willingly get into a car with them ... they might as well have been carrying machetes and guns and wearing t-shirts emblazoned with "We Plan to Kill You" imprinted on them).

Then there's the epileptic sexton and a grossly obese woman caring for a small village church, the priest having died several years ago; a dying woman in the village, for whom he's asked to perform the rite of Extreme Unction when her sister mistakes him for a priest because he's wearing bothered robes (and good thing this devoutly Catholic Brazilian woman doesn't realize he's completely bullshitting his way through one of the most sacred rites in Catholocism); a sinister surgeon who amputates the Artist's leg for his own political gain; and the surgeon's daughter, who apparently has a bizarre sexual fetish for newly one-legged actors of little note.