A Concepção

Relentless, sometimes pleasantly obnoxious portrait of wasted youth in Brazil's capital, from where you can only escape, as one of the character says, through airport, public service or cemetery. But of course, Belmonte is good at framing people's burning minds and behaviors, but he's not Korine or Clark, and the film slowly becomes uninteresting as more and more voiceovers mount to that weird, mezzo courtroom thriller, mezzo family drama finale. Milhem Cortaz is just awesome.