In a near-future Brazil, elderly citizens are forcibly relocated to live out the rest of their days in a senior housing colony once they hit 80. When the age cutoff is suddenly lowered, 77-year-old Tereza (Denise Weinberg) learns that she has just days before she’s to be taken away from her job, home, and family. Desperate to fulfill a lifelong dream of flying in a plane, she resolves to travel through the Amazon — a decision that places her in contact with a lonely riverboat smuggler and a mysterious snail whose “blue drool” has the power to reveal one’s future.
Less a dystopian thriller, more a trippy septuagenarian fantasy, the latest from Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro is a quirky picaresque, lushly photographed and filled with mordant humour.
What’s remarkable about The Blue Trail and makes it such a delight is that despite all the oppression in the air, it’s a movie filled with hope and faith in human resilience at any age.
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
Entrancingly unpredictable.
Jonathan Romney, Screen International
Gabriel Mascaro
Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socorrás, Adanilo
Brazil/Mexico/
Chile/Netherlands
2025
In Portuguese with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay
Screenwriter
Gabriel Mascaro, Tibério Azul
Cinematography
Guillermo Garza
Editor
Sebastían Sepúlveda, Omar Guzmán
Original Music
Memo Guerra
Art Director
Dayse Barreto
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