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Dry Wind

Vento Seco

  • Status: Released
  • 26-02-2020
  • Runtime: 110 min
  • Score: 6.5
  • Vote count: 29

The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.

Leandro Faria Lelo

Sandro Karnas

Allan Jacinto Santana

Ricardo Cardoso

Renata Carvalho

Paula Astorga

Rafael Teóphilo

Maicon Machado

Mel Gonçalves

Rita de Cássia

Del Neto

Davi Machado

Larissa Sisterolli

Larissa Machado

Guilhotina Guinle

Madame G

Marcelo D'Avilla

Ice Cream Man

Bruno Fernandes

Al Parker

Wilker Rodrigues

Casey Donovan

Marcelo Souza e Silva

Augusto Astorga

Sajoão

Peter Berlin

Thiago Silva

Conrado Helt

Norval Berbari

CinemaSerf

This is a curious film to watch. On the face of it, it indulges just about every fetish known to mankind - from water sports to leather; domination to submission (and frequently in a bug-infested, though beautiful, rainforest) that conspires to create a rather implausible love triangle blurring fact and fantasy in an almost childlike, dreamlike fashion. "Sandro" (Leandro Faria Lelo) is a chubby, middle aged bloke who works in a factory, has the occasional shag with his colleague "Ricardo" (Allan Jacinto Santana) - it's just sex; though perhaps they do, sort of, like one another on a deeper level. Enter the handsome "Maicon" (Rafael Teóphilo) clad in leather astride a Harley Davidson (?) and both men have a new fantasy. There is plenty of fairly graphic sex - (though nothing compared to any French equivalent) and in a post-AIDS environment, these older guys seem to have little concern for their own, or each other's wellbeing - but it isn't just about casual sex. There is something more visceral about it - once the physical lusts have been sated, a semblance of a love story emerges and at times that is quite touching. It's quite a slow burn, but it isn't boring - give it a chance and it shows a side of gay storytelling devoid of the usual vacuous pretty boys in thongs and the ending is anything but straightforward.