2023-06-07 03:11:00
A student specializing in violence against women discovers BDSM practices. In a calibrated film, Julia Murat questions the intimate: how can we reconcile libido and politics?
Left the Locarno festival with the Golden Leopard, the Brazilian Rule 34 is a film in tune with the times, carefully calibrated to make you think: its heroine, Simone, is a student specializing in cases of domestic violence who performs as a cam-girl once classes are over. One thing leading to another, from conversations with a friend to requests from Internet users, she comes to experiment with increasingly violent BDSM practices. His daytime ideological options collide with his nocturnal passions, how can one reconcile libido and politics: you have two hours. Rule 34 thus alternates with the regularity of a metronome between Simone’s education in violence against women and the little vignettes during which she gets off. Nothing sulphurous transpires from the staging, not the slightest little endangerment that would blur a paradoxically vague message: what drives Simone when she ultimately invites an ultra-violent man to her home? Rule 34 didn’t want to know.
Rule 34 by Julia Murat, with Sol Miranda, Lucas Andrade, Lorena Comparato, 1h40.
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