Film Trance reflects on affections and love during political polarization

Trance, a mix of fiction and documentary by Anne Pinheiro Guimarães and Carolina Jabor, hits theaters next Thursday (2/5) and brings a plot of romantic encounters and disagreements amid political polarization in 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro arrived at the power.

The film was recorded amid EleNão demonstrations and stars Luisa Arraes as Luisa, a young actress who lives with her musician boyfriend, Ravel (Ravel Andrade). She meets Johnny (Johnny Massaro), a free spirit, and the three live a relationship based on free love, when an imminent danger threatens to put everyone’s future at risk.

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Trance, a documentary by Anne Pinheiro Guimarães and Carolina Jabor, hits theaters next Thursday (2/5)
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creates a fiction of romantic encounters and disagreements amid political polarization in 2018, when Jair Bolsonaro came to power
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The film was recorded amid EleNão demonstrations and stars Luisa Arraes as Luisa, a young actress who lives with her musician boyfriend, Ravel (Ravel Andrade)
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She meets Johnny (Johnny Massaro), a free spirit, and the three live a relationship based on free love, when an imminent danger threatens to put everyone’s future at risk.
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According to Carolina Jabor, the choice of young characters was a way of portraying the perspective of some left-wing people.
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Anne Pinheiro Guimarães revealed that the film’s script was improved according to events during the presidential campaign
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According to Carolina Jabor, the choice of young characters was a way of portraying the perspective of a section of left-wing people. “Through the innocent look of young people who had never experienced a clash with an opposition so contrary to everything they believed in, we are also showing a certain naivety that we were all experiencing at that moment”, he declared, indicating that the film emerged as an “escape valve ”.

Anne Pinheiro Guimarães revealed that the film’s script was improved according to events during the presidential campaign. “We went out to film with a minimal crew from these meetings. We created the situations, talked a lot with the cast about the scene and let them improvise with their visions of what we were staging,” she said, adding that the process was “very lively and open to suggestions.”

Protagonist, Luisa Arraes explained that she had never made a film this way and that they didn’t know what result they would get. “Normally, we make a film knowing what we are going to say. But our film is a fiction made like a documentary. We didn’t know where we were going, we didn’t know exactly what we wanted to say, so it’s made today about today. This is in the way it was made and recorded,” she reported.

Johnny Massaro pointed out that the film continues to be current, despite life’s constant transformations and that it brings a lesson. “There is nothing stagnant and static in the universe, so we will always have to be updated, attentive, because there are always elections and always in the exercise of democracy. I hope we no longer need to make films in this way, which start from this despair, this anguish and that we can contemplate other subjects because many people died as a result of this”, he said.

Arraes said that the film brought a new perception into his life, that of wanting to listen more to people who have opinions contrary to his own. The actress also said that they lent a lot of their personality and thoughts to the characters in this production. Massaro added: “The great asset of this film is that we used our own experiences as an arsenal.”

The name of the film still brings a reflection to viewers, both due to the trance caused by the elections, with the dissemination of various fake news and Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power, and due to the romantic relationships between the main characters, Luisa, Ravel and Johnny.