Princessa

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Note of intent

The sudden conservative that has taken Brazilian politics is making us experience the feeling that the world is spinning backwards. Sexism is shamelessly displayed out there, and it shines a light on the damage it brings to women and also to men. Princess begins with a very sharp sense of humor and lots of jokes that little by little reveals its terror using the arguments of sexism against itself and deconstructing the fairy tale. This film is my way of going against this regression. Princess is my deed.

Synopsis

Camila and Ricardo are a young and hispter couple that work together and share responsibility for their baby, Otto. After attending a soccer match, Ricardo comes back home with a weird wound. With each passing day, he becomes jealous, controlling and lazy, while he distances himself from the baby and Camila. After a few days, Ricardo organizes an ostentatious proposal. Camila is dazed and before she can even answer, Ricardo puts a ring on her finger. After a strange event, Camila also starts to behave differently, and she can only think of her big wedding party. Like Ricardo, Camila is affected by this new “disease” that seems uncontrollable.

Visual concept

Our hero is a successful professional and a free woman but because of this “moral virus” she ends up becoming an oppressed princess. A few of the major inspirations for the tone and audiovisual concept of the film approaches the thrillers Get out by Jordan Peele for its mixture of horrors and politics and Custody by Xavier Legrand for the claustrophobic lensing of the interiors. The actors’ direction intends to be naturalistic in  contrast with the situation, inspired by works like Sigourney Weaver in Alien or Kirsten Dunst in Melancolia.