Os 3

A Warner Bros. South america discharge of a Cinema Sport Club presentation and production, in colaboration with Warner. Bros., using the participation of TeleImage. Created by Nando Olival, Ricardo Della Rosa. Executive producers, Wellington Pingo, Claudia Bueschel. Directed by Nando Olival. Script, Olival, Thiago Dottori.With: Juliana Schalch, Gabriel Godoy, Victor Mendes, Sophia Reis, Rafael Maia, Alceu Nunes, Henrique Taubate, Cecilia Homem p Melo.A student love triangular will get a fancy transformation in "Os 3," from Brazilian rookie scribe-helmer Nando Olival. Story of two men along with a woman, whose intimate friendship begins once they concurrently wiggle their distance to your bathroom, slyly comments on auds' own voyeurism once the threesome get their attic fitted with cameras that record their every move in your own home. Though not really a biting critique of consumerist culture or even the reality-TV craze, pic cleverly milks its setup for narrative twists and turns. The mainstream-oriented, Warner Bros. South america production is going to be launched in your area November. 11, and it has remake potential. Olival and cinematographer Ricardo Della Rosa ("Home of Sand," "Lope") also created through their new shingle, Cinema Sports Club. Their background in advertisements is felt on the thematic level but particularly in the pictures, using their amber-implanted, slightly saturated color scheme and employ of shallow focus. Pop aesthetic is further strengthened through the song options and sharp cutting. Onscreen definitions of friendship, love, passion and lust open the film, which concepts, as with any threesome tale with credibility, end up being elastic and fuzzy. In a wild house party in Sao Paulo, three college students bond while arranging for that bathroom: cute but from time to time uptight Rafael (Victor Mendes), who thinks themself a author pretty Camila (Juliana Schalch), who would like to be an actress and Caze (Gabriel Godoy), an average person who invites these to accept him inside a barely converted industrial space. The only real house rule for that communication studies undergrads: no kissing with no sex. But here, as elsewhere within the film, Olival and co-scribe Thiago Dottori ("VIPs") setup a familiar cliche, then subtly subvert it. The greatest ace in the pic's sleeve may be the friends' joint graduation project: a suggested Web reality show by having an integrated online shop that enables audiences to purchase regardless of the figures onscreen are utilizing or putting on. Guilherme (Rafael Maia), the marketing-savvy grand son of two graying department-store proprietors (Alceu Nunes, Henrique Taubate), loves their idea and convinces his family to create the project a real possibility within the trio's attic. Once the cameras catch some three-way canoodling one drunken evening, the show becomes this type of hit that Guilherme demands a threesome's what you want. Though they initially reject the concept, Raf the author and Camila the actress finally put their abilities towards the test, turning the goings-on in their home into largely scripted fare. This can lead to some lightly comic material including Caze, who can't act, and Raf, who's uncomfortable with finding yourself in rapport with another guy, too -- a imaginary one. Third act cleverly piles around the plot twists because the characters' real feelings crystallize among their very own progressively vague notions of what's still real and what's make-believe. The 3 up-and-comers play their roles well and feel even more real to be appealing instead of impossibly handsome. They are almost upstaged by veterinarians Nunes and Taubate, who seem the Brazilian same as Statler and Waldorf. Olival's mise-en-scene exploits production designer's Near Azevedo's sets well, using framework and particulars for example glass and lightweight to adjust ideas of searching and amounts of seeing. Fortunately, actual camera footage from the reality show is restricted. Portuguese-language title only denotes "Us 3."Camera (color, HD-to-35mm), Ricardo Della Rosa editor, Daniel Rezende music, Erectile dysfunction Cortes production designer, Near Azevedo costume designer, Andre Simonetti seem (Dolby Digital), Miriam Biderman, Ricardo Reis casting, Sang Sfai. Examined at Rio p Janeiro Film Festival (competing), March. 16, 2011. Running time: 78 MIN. Contact Boyd van Hoeij at news@variety.com