Portuguese with English Subtitles
With Bárbara Luz, Patrícia Pillar, Zé Carlos Machado, Lee Taylor
In the film Unicorn, a 13-year-old girl lives with her mother in an isolated cottage in the countryside while they wait for the return of the girl’s father. The relationship between mother and daughter changes with the arrival of another man.
Based on two short stories by Brazilian poet Hilda Hilst, Eduardo Nunes‘s film mixes fantasy and fairytale, delivering stunning visuals through saturated landscapes in a beautiful anamorphic format.
Press
“The visually-stunning fairly tale is surely one of the most stylish of Berlinale’s Generation offers.” – John Hopewell, Variety
“Based on two stories by renowned Brazilian writer Hilda Hilst, Unicorn takes up many of the author’s themes – sexuality, physicality, desire, death, and the pain they can inflict, or that people inflict upon each other – in a visual form that enhances the tension between a reality depicted with great faith to details and the magical realism that characterizes much of Hilst’s work.” – FilmFestivals.com
“Unicórnio is created to explore the more sensory aspects of experiencing film, whilst paying unique homage to the words of a national icon [Hilda HIlst].” – Jodie McNeilly, FilmExplorer
