Lonely Hearts
- Direction
- Caru Alves de Souza
- Country
- Brazil
- Original title
- Corações Solitários
- Film presented in Toulouse
My Name is Baghdad – Découvertes Fiction 2021
- Scenario
- Caru Alves de Souza, Josefina Trotta
Caru Alves de Souza
Caru Alves de Souza (Brazil, 1979) is a young director, filmmaker and scriptwriter. She has directed television documentaries and two award-winning feature films. She is currently writing two feature film screenplays, both awarded in competitions, Sonhos de Rossi and Bagdá. De Menor is her first feature film.
Filmography
– My name is Baghdad, fiction feature film, 2020 70 Berlin International Film Festival (Gran Prix – Generation 14 Plus) ; Critic’s Week – 42 ; Cairo International Film Festival ; 65, Cork International Film Festival ; Nara International Film Festival – Berlinale Spotlights
– Underage, fiction feature film, 2013 San Sebastián International Film Festival, Rio International Film Festival (Best Feature Film), Biarritz Festival Latin America, Cinelatino – Rencontres de Toulouse
– Family Affair, fiction short film, 2011 35 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival (EUA), Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, Festival de Cinema de Cartagena, Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Note of intent
The film takes place in a decaying pornography movie theater in downtown São Paulo where lonely characters meet, create bonds of friendship and love, and walk on the threshold between reality and fantasy. Filmmakers Luc and Jean Pierre Dardenne frequently talk about the political potential of the encounter with the other as an agent of transformation in an unjust and inhumane society. Through encountering the other, we become ourselves, we become human. I share this reflection and I intend to bring it to the film.
Synopsis
In the midst of a serious economic crisis, Julieta tries to keep her decadent porn movie theater in downtown São Paulo. Devouring books and obsessed with happy endings, Julieta helps everyone who crosses her path, but is unable to help herself. Pressed by a property developer to sell her cinema, she tries to resist in every way and preserve her fertile imagination with the help of her friends.
Visual concept
I want to follow some strategies that I used in my last movie, My Name is Baghdad, such as not working with electrical and grip departments. The camera will inevitably be either operated in hand (with some type of stabiliser or not) or on a tripod, generating a more naturalistic aesthetic. This should be contrasted with the inclusion of non-naturalist elements in the musical scenes and soundtrack. I also want to work with a cast composed of professional and non-professional actors.
- Objectives sought in Films in Development
We would like to talk to international co-producers, sales agents, international financing funds and labs.
- Shooting planned date
February 2022
- Planned shooting location
São Paulo (Brazil)
- Percentage of funding in place
- 20%
- Project's development phase
Development
- Production
- Manjericão Filmes
- Producer's biography
As a partner at Manjericão Filmes I produce Brazilian and international films, in addition to being a TV executive producer. The partnership with Caru began when we were still making short films. From there we made her first feature, Underage, which premiered at the San Sebastian Festival and won Best Film at Rio Festival in 2013. Then we developed My Name is Baghdad, Generation 14plus Gran Prix at the 70 Berlinale.