“Greice” is a joint Portuguese Brazilian production wandering in a disjointed fashion bouncing off the walls as if the film had downed too many strong Brazilian coffees.
Factually it is described accurately in the film festival guide. Move beyond the factual description and that is where the trouble brews. If “Greice” was an attempt to make a “sophisticated and artistic film” it fails miserably. For large segments of the movie I query why is that they are there as they make no sense to me. At times the film attempts to right itself and succeeds but at other times it fails. A film of superficiality.
The initial thirty minutes temporally confuse the viewer but after that point some of grand initial confusion makes sense but only some.
Greice is a 21-year-old Brazilian woman attending a fine arts college in Lisbon who meets fellow student Alfonso. At a student party a painting at the faculty burns with Greice and Alfonso taking the heat for the damage and are expelled until an investigation is completed which complicates Greice’s student visa renewal so she ends up back in her Brazilian hometown to process her student visa application at the Portuguese consulate. The plot at that point furiously stumbles to and fro introducing characters for no apparent purpose.
At best I can say the film is a study of Greice as a pathological liar but making that the premise of the film may be too kind to it. I mean that weird dance scene at the conclusion of the film borders on the absurd in a film that is not absurdist.
I am becoming confused even trying to explain this movie.
The director and writer is Leonardo Mouramateus and stars Amandyra (a rather pretentious way of describing herself as she is not Madonna quite yet despite her talent).
RKS 2024 Film Rating 48/100.
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