Will-o'-the-Wisp
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Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues | 67 mins | 2022
A queer musical fantasia unlike anything in recent cinema, Rodrigues’s 2069 love song finds an ailing monarch flashing back to his erotic youth as a fireman during a time of climate crisis, in which his beefcake blaze-battler (Mauro Costa) is transformed by a sexual encounter with a veteran colleague (André Cabral). Hot, hilarious, and wildly subversive, Rodrigues’s most recent work is a high-wire genre mix of musical choreography, cum shots, and art-historical cosplay, all delivered in a blazing 67 minutes.
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