Review of Futuro Beach

PRAIA DO FUTURO (Beach of the Future) a Brazilian/German coproduction is another competition entry at Berlin 2014. Helmer Karim Aïnouz a Brazilian-Algerian 48, is a film director and visual artist. Aïnouz's first feature debut, Madame Satã, premiered in 2002 at Cannes. He is from the northeastern Brazilian state of Ceará on the Atlantic coast and that is where this film opens before moving to Germany to follow the trail of its lovers, Donato, Brazilian, and Konrad, a German motorcycle tourist in Brazil. Donato is a lifeguard on this most dangerous ocean beach and saves Donato from drowning, then immediately becomes his lover. So this is basically a tale of gay masculine love between two macho types you wouldn't take for gay and that is maybe the message of the movie. "You can't tell a gay from his cover" -- The homosex on screen is so realistic that it looks non-simulated ~ these guys were really into their respective roles as far as sex is concerned. However I found neither actor very interesting as characters so I left soon after the first big blowjob. "Nymphomaniac" this not, but it may be in contention for one of Berlin's famous Teddy prizes -- The Berlin Teddy Bear sidebar is the mother of all the Gay and Lesban festivals that now abound around the globe.