O Filme do Bruno Aleixo

After Diamantino, contemporary Portuguese cinema brings us one more nonsense comedy, in what may be a quite innovative and audacious wave. This movie is about a film that the main character, Bruno Aleixo, needs to create for a producer. Them, he talks with his closest friends aiming to reach a nice idea. The surrealist issue is that those core characters are animals, statues or other antropomorphic non-humans. Why? How do I know? Just surrealist nonsense humor! The film was mixes a little animation with live action, in an intentionally weird way. The greatest merit, however, is probably exploring different cinema and TV genres in a very funny way. I have previously seen this in a hilarious 2008 Brazilian short film, 'Os Filmes que não Fiz', but not in a feature-length movie. This 'O Filme do Bruno Aleixo' is very skilful in changing colours, lettering, edition, cinematography, and so for, in its parodies of different genres. Quite clever. All the film design is nice too.