"Interlúdio" is that kind of short film that you either feel emptied out with its simplicty as it tells a common story or you try to
question the situations and reflect about the scenario presented and its relevance to life. I go with the latter, even though I almost felt that
nothing so enlightning was shown. And the question one gets from this bittersweet story is: is there a way for men to be faithful to one woman?
Is there way they can share a life with just one or that old cliche that they're always like cavemen hunting for something or someone new
a true reality?
Our hero is a charming man (Júlio Conte) who moves from one relationship to another. They come and go like the speed of light and for
reasons only known to him - the film stills from the opening reveal that he's complicated and the women end up leaving him. A routine shopping
at the supermarket makes him notice a shy female cashier (Marta Biavaschi) of whom he grows fondly and finds a way to ask her out. Success at
that, they go on a date and everything goes happily but...the next day, due to one of those strange accidents of life he stumbles into another
woman at the very same market and he's in love with this new woman. Too many fishes out there in this vast ocean called life.
Everything is told through his perspective, narrating the painful drama of his life. It's a visually interesting short, patient with its
presentation with a great balance between humor, romance and drama. It doesn't offer any kind of impressive moment where you can say that there's
something refreshing about this little story. But it's involving and makes you exhamine life, relationships and the situations some people are
when finding a special someone and complications begin (or you can just call him a heartless, weak-minded dude).
My small (and pointless?) complaint is with the remastering of the film. It was so well made and vivid that it doesn't look as something originally
made in the 1980's - some audiences will be very confused in seeing title cards that weren't common in that decade. 8/10.
