Director Marcos Prado makes his feature film debut through “Paraísos Artificiais” [Eng. Title: Artificial Paradises], a story set amidst the rave scene and a group of young people embracing eclectic new age ideals. We follow their fortunes over a period of six years.
Storyline:
Most of the film’s events are told through flashback as Nando, released after serving time for drug trafficking, reminisces his past, including one Érika, a DJ he’d incidentally met in Amsterdam four years ago. Or so he thinks, for Érika seems to remember him from earlier. Who knows what a string of coincidences could lead to…
One of the noteworthy features of the film is the way it tries to connect events and circumstances by boldly jumping through time-lines. The treatment is typically European, and the cyclical style of linking events, including the tone used reminds us of Julio Medem’s classics such as Los Amantes del Circulo Polar and Lucía y el Sexo. As does the stunning cinematography by Lula Carvalho, which nevertheless is made all the more easier with the use of ‘star’ locations – the spectacular Brazilian scenes are a particular delight that doesn’t require any psychedelic drugs to appreciate. There are, as hinted, several instances of casual drug-use and abuse strewn throughout the film – I don’t know if this is considered ‘normal’ behaviour among those circles, having never had the opportunity nor inclination to participate in raves – I’ll just have to take Prado’s word for it. The film doesn’t rely too much on individual performances to carry the narrative – the camera work, edits and the impressive sound track gets the necessary message across. There are nevertheless a number of beautiful people making an appearance, both male and female, not least the lovely Nathalia Dill who plays Érika, and pretty Lívia de Bueno who plays her friend and lover Lara. Altogether, this is a pleasant film, very well made, and more importantly, it is an impressive feature debut by Marcos Prado Recommended Viewing..!
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Compilation: Nathalia Dill and Lívia de Bueno
This is just a sampler as there are additional instances of nudity in the film.
Marcos Prado’s impressive film, “Paraísos Artificiais” also features notable scenes of sex and nudity from actresses Nathalia Dill and Lívia de Bueno.
Scene Guide:
- Nando, played by Luca Bianchi, reminisces some of his happier moments with Érika, a successful DJ that he’d met during a visit to Amsterdam. Érika is played rather well by the lovely Nathalia Dill. I’ve re-hashed things a bit here to make more sense.
- Awesome scene, very well done, with some ‘Peyote’ magic! The music is taken from the groovy track “Daydream” by Ash Ra Tempel – I’m gonna look for their album now! Érika and Lara partake an ‘entheogenic’ mushroom given by a friend and go on a transcendental walkabout while waiting for their bus to be repaired. Possibly the most memorable scene from the film. Blonde Lara is played by Lívia de Bueno.
- Érika and Lara are a lot more than mere friends, as this scene shows.
- This is supposed to be a treat to celebrate Érika’s successful performance as DJ at the rave – to share someone with the person they loved most. They choose Nando for their threesome, only for Lara to start feeling unwell soon after…
Download Links:
Mirror 1: Part 1 | Part 2
Mirror 2: Part 1 | Part 2
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The purchase link that you graciously provided is obviously in Portuguese. I would like to know if the site delivers to the United States. Using google translate’s general English to Portuguese translation, I am led to believe that the site, submarino.com.br does not ship to the USA. So, how did the moderator get a hold of any of the clips. I am only interested in buying dvd discs and not interested in downloads. Please advise. You’ve been very helpful in the past. And I always come back here to find new films to own for myself.
Sorry you’re having trouble purchasing the DVD from them bolodoo. Let me check with them and come back to you. My DVD was not purchased from this vendor – I merely identified one who was stocking it at the time of posting. I’d however normally verify vendors’ shipping policy before placing their links but apparently not on this occasion…
PS: Moderator not based in USA btw… 🙂
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Hi. My name is Sérgio, I´m from Brazil, and I can tell you that submarino does not ship outside Brazil, but other sites do. One I can indicate for you is livrariacultura, they have the DVD in stock and they say they ship to every place in the world, you just have to put the name of the country during the process of purchase to discover the shipping costs. If you have any doubts, you can write me in serram@terra.com.br
Saying something about the movie, Nathália Dill (like Camila Pitanga, from the other Brazilian movie you posted some time before) is an actress of TV soap operas, which are very popular here in Brazil and the greater part of the better known actors of the country take role in them. But these shows (or novelas, as they are called here) do not display clear nudity, so these movies are expected with anxiety to show the nudity of some of the more beautiful women from here 🙂 If you research Brazilian movies, specially from the 70s and 80s, there is a lot of nudity, but the greater part of them are not of much value in terms of quality of cinematography. But there are some of them that share both characteristics, like the movies by Arnaldo Jabor, Walter Hugo Khoury (a kind of Brazilian Antonioni with lots of nudity and sex) and Antonio Calmon.
Sorry for the lengthy message, I hope that it would be useful.
Thanks for this useful information Sérgio – I’ll also update the DVD link on the page.
Agree, I too am aware of the so-called ‘pornochanchada’ phenomenon even though some rather interesting works can also be found among those. I’m however still scratching at the surface of Brazilian cinema and will be checking out the directors you mentioned. Thanks again.
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And thank you, TR, for your help. Man oh man, I know of some of the films but your blog and insight is so very much worth its weight in gold. I would be pulling my hair out were it not for you and your kind members.
Thank you very, very, very much. I’m the one who inquired about the film and I intend to attempt to place an order in the next few days. With your help I will have victory and my film!!!!!!!!!
Yes. It will be very useful. I would like to thank you personally. I was going to send you an email but I hope that you realize how grateful I am. I’m the one who inquired about the availability of the film and I intend to attempt to place an order with them soon. I don’t mind that the nude scenes are not up to American expectations because for me, nudity in soaps, here in America is approached very carefully if not at all on mainstream television. I find it refreshing and new to find it elsewhere.
I just bought the Nathalia Dill movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The people at Livrariacultura.com.br were very nice. I have an international calling plan so I was able to talk with a few of them to register properly and order the film for a very modest $35.00 including an US bank processing fee which will be applied. I want to thank sermarc for his encouragements and the people at livrariacultura.com.br for their help. And to inform the members of this very important blog that the often byzantine nature of international ordering/shipping can be relatively easy if done with courtesy and thankfulness. Also, I received confirmation from livrariacultura that the Camila Pitanga film WILL NOT be available for sale as a dvd until November at the latest. Now, off to my next target.
Well I’m glad you’d sorted this out with livrariacultura.com.br. Yes Sergio had been quite helpful in locating this supplier. I’ll also be contacting them about future and older releases I’m after.
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