Body Rice

Saw this movie at the FICCO festival in Mexico City and I guess this movie would not make it to the cinemas in general...It is difficult to endure the movie, due to its subject and slow, boring atmosphere (some people left the cinema, others fell asleep). If they wanted to show the apathy of these youngsters, they really made the point. There was some good acting, but do not expect any explanation of why these people are in that place (supposedly it's a social project), why they are such losers and what there future will be. Do only watch this movie if you are interested in apathy/doing nothing in your life and maybe tecno music (or if you were a similar loser in the past?). Sorry, but this is just a 3.

I saw this movie by chance and I was very positively surprised. It felt so good to see a movie without moral statements and stupidly complicated stories. It was a piece of reality, so simple it seemed I could also be there.

There are some moments of pure genius with a perfect synchrony between amazing images of Alentejo's landscape and a soundtrack that blows up our minds.

I believe it couldn't be said more with such few words. This movie is a masterwork with a very contemporary characterization of both Germany and Portugal. Youth with no objectives and transnational places blend together in Body Rice.

Too bad to be true. I simply gave up watching it after 30 minutes of suffering.

It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Portuguese cinema has this curse of pseudo-intellectuals who keep pushing their "vision" of what cinema should be onto others. They're wrong and it's not just because they do bad movies, it's because you can do bad movies and still make something that can be enjoyable. Not our directors! They hold the holy grail of truth and they think that "bright" ideas should only be presented to the audience in the most boring way you can imagine.

I think this movie is awesome. It reflects the multi-cultural side from drugs in Portugal. For people who never passed inside this lifestyle or have been drugged for along time it must be boring or annoying. But for people that lived this experience it reflects the pure truth of what happens when we enter in a world of peace, pure pleasure, satisfaction and beauty. But not everything is beautiful as it seems. -------------- ---------------- -------------- ------------ --------------- ----------- -------------- ------------- ------------- -------------- ------------ -------------- --------------- ------------- ------------ ------------ -------------- ------------- ------------ ---------- ---------- ------------ ------------

It would not be too much to affirm that BODY RICE means something new in Portuguese cinema: The restitution to a "zone" physical and metaphorical, were language can be re-invented. In my opinion just a few films in last years affirmed such a strong vision of cinema. This film captures a moment of our time, and what it is more important has found the right form to tell it. If it would have to be found the Portuguese film which more truly tells us about the end of the XX century is BODY RICE. Its central theme of ABSENCE (from the theme to the form of the film), and the reformulation (rethink)of space and time, the end of nostalgia, re-thinking of narrative would be enough to be "a" central object in cinema nowadays. Plus one of the most exciting sound work I heard make it very special. I found also many analogies with contemporary video work, something which comes in the language of time for observation. I would recommend it to everybody really interested in art, media and contemporary film