{"id":166498,"date":"2021-01-30T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-pink-cloud-review-sundance-2021-film\/"},"modified":"2021-01-30T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T00:00:11","slug":"the-pink-cloud-review-sundance-2021-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-pink-cloud-review-sundance-2021-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Pink Cloud Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Pink Cloud Review: Sundance 2021 \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Welcome to a world where people are stuck inside, quarantined against something deadly lurking beyond their doors and windows. No, it\u2019s not the story of COVID-19 \u2013 it\u2019s\u00a0The Pink Cloud<\/em><\/strong>, a film shot in 2019, before many of us had any idea what the coronavirus even was; before the idea of self-quarantining for a long period of time became the new normal. Circumstances beyond the control of filmmaker Iuli Gerbase<\/strong> have made\u00a0The Pink Cloud<\/em> all the more unsettling, and even timely. But would the film have as much of an impact if we weren\u2019t all about to enter a full year of quarantine?<\/p>\n

After a night of partying and fun, practical strangers Giovana (Renata de L\u00e9lis<\/strong>) and Yago (Eduardo Mendon\u00e7a<\/strong>) wake up to a shocking development: a gorgeous, ever-moving pink cloud has formed over the city, and it\u2019s killing people. Anyone who steps outside while the pink cloud hovers about is doomed to die within seconds. Which means these two people have gone from a potential one-night stand to guaranteeing together.
\nAs fate would have it, the pair were crashing at the sprawling, well-stocked house of Giovana\u2019s mother, so they\u2019re able to stretch out a little. But as the days, and weeks, and years stretch on, that becomes cold comfort. Writer-director\u00a0Gerbase is skilled at creating the passage of time here, be it through quick montages or bits of info that get casually tossed off. We watch the years fly by as Giovana and Yago are stuck with each other, unable to escape. Giovana has video calls with her younger sister, who had the bad luck of getting stuck at a never-ending sleepover at her friends\u2019 house. Yago has video calls of his own \u2013 with his ailing father, who is convinced his live-in nurse is trying to kill him.<\/p>\n

And time ticks on. TV news<\/a> coverage relies on cellphone footage \u2013 and, curiously enough, those interviewed end up growing accustomed to cloud. \u201cNo more robberies! No more kidnapp<\/a>ings! No more car crashes!\u201d one person cheerfully says. It\u2019s as if the cloud has created a form of\u00a0Stockholm syndrome, with people perfectly content to remain prisoners in their own homes.<\/p>\n

Yago is one such person. While Giovana is constantly surfing the web and watching the TV looking for\u00a0some<\/em> sort of hopeful news, Yago is apparently perfectly content to remain quarantined forever. \u201cIf we stay locked in here for many years would you like kids?\u201d he asks at one point as if that were the most normal question in the world.<\/p>\n

Giovana does\u00a0not<\/em> want kids. She\u2019s emphatic about that. In her mind, having kids would be giving up her freedom. But as Yago points out, her freedom is pretty much gone now anyway since she\u2019s stuck inside with nowhere to go. And as time continues to crawl on, the pair do end up having a kid \u2013 a son (they have a video call with a doctor to oversee the home birth). But inevitability soon sets in, and Giovana grows weary of the relationship and insists on a breakup. Of course, this won\u2019t be your standard breakup since the duo are still stuck in the same place. The solution: Yago will live upstairs, Giovana will live downstairs, and they\u2019ll take turns raising their son.<\/p>\n

The Pink Cloud<\/em> is darkly humorous in the way it approaches all of this. The film is deliberately vague about the science<\/a> of the cloud \u2013 where does it come from? Why won\u2019t it go away? How does it kill people? There are no answers, and even if there were, the film wouldn\u2019t be interested in them. Instead, it wants to explore how its characters deal with their situation, and how that situation slowly pushes them to the breaking point.
\nThe two actors who take up the bulk of the screentime are equally believable and natural here. We fully buy into\u00a0Mendon\u00e7a\u2019s take on the apathetic Yago just as much as we believe\u00a0de L\u00e9lis as her\u00a0Giovana grows more and more haggard and frustrated. We have sympathy for these two even when they do things that might otherwise make us loathe them. It\u2019s to the actor\u2019s credit that they carry the weight of all of this with seeming ease.<\/p>\n

There are wonderful little details scattered throughout it all \u2013 news footage of people celebrating the cloud\u2019s one-year birthday as if it were all a game<\/a>; air-tight tubes that are attached to people\u2019s homes via drones so the government can drop in supplies; comments like, \u201cI hear it might go away in the winter\u2026something about the weather,\u201d and, \u201cHow come no one has a solution? A mask that allows us to go out?\u201d When role-playing fails to spice up Giovana and Yago\u2019s relationship and they split, the two turn to others for sexual gratification \u2013 be it Giovana peeping out her window at a neighbor or Yago having a full-blown long-distance relationship with another woman via the internet. The longer the cloud lingers, the darker the mood inside the home becomes. Soon, Giovana is trying to escape the house and her make-shift family via a VR headset.<\/p>\n

The Pink Cloud<\/em> is not about our current COVID-19 situation but the connections are inevitable at this point. The idea of being trapped in our houses has become commonplace by now and it will no doubt make\u00a0Gerbase\u2019s film uncomfortable for some. One still has to wonder if the film would be as effective right now if it weren\u2019t for COVID. Without the pandemic, everything here would seem a tad fantastical. Now, we can\u2019t help but draw sometimes painful connections. Perhaps it\u2019ll hit too close to home. After all, the film makes it clear that there\u2019s only so long a person can remain trapped before they start getting desperate.<\/p>\n

\/Film rating: 7 out of 10\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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