Neon Bull

Neon Bull
Film poster
Directed by	Gabriel Mascaro
Written by	Gabriel Mascaro
Starring	Vinícius de Oliveira
Release dates	4 September 2015 (2015-09-04) (Venice) 14 January 2016 (2016-01-14) (Brazil)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	Brazil
Language	Portuguese
Box office	$148,913[1]

Neon Bull (Portuguese: Boi neon) is a 2015 Brazilian drama film directed by Gabriel Mascaro. The film premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and won the Horizons (Orizzonti) - Special Jury Prize. It was also shown in the Platform section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,^[2] where it received an honorable mention from the jury.^[3] At the 31st Warsaw International Film Festival it received the main prize of the International Competition, the Warsaw Grand Prix.^[4]

Plot

Iremar (Juliano Cazarré) is a bull handler, working for a traveling group who transport bulls from rodeo to rodeo, who dreams of becoming a tailor and making fashionable clothing for women. He finds an outlet for his creativity making custom horse masks and provocative outfits for Galega (Maeve Jinkings), the group's driver who also performs sexually enticing dances for groups of men after each rodeo. They are accompanied by Galega's daughter, Cacá (Alyne Santana); and Zé (Carlos Pessoa), a buffoonish bull wrangler who is the butt of the other's jokes. The film deals mainly with the interactions between the members of this group, interspersed with Iremar's attempts to design clothing, and rodeo scenes. After an attempt by Iremar and Zé to steal valuable horse semen from a stud auction goes awry, Zé is offered a new job as a horse wrangler; he is replaced in the group by Junior (Vinícius de Oliveira) a young, attractive, and vain, but kind, man who befriends Cacá and becomes sexually involved with Galega. During a rodeo, Iremar meets Geise, a pregnant woman selling cologne and perfume from a large factory where she also works as a nighttime security guard. After the rodeo, Geise brings a bottle of cologne to Iremar as a gift. Later, at night, he visits her at the factory, where he is impressed by the industrial clothing machinery. She seduces him, the pair engage in sexual intercourse and the film ends.

Cast

• Juliano Cazarré as Iremar
• Maeve Jinkings as Galega
• Vinícius de Oliveira as Júnior
• Alyne Santana as Cacá
• Josinaldo Alves as Mário
• Samya De Lavor as Geise
• Carlos Pessoa as Zé
• Abigail Pereira as Fabiana

Accolades

References

External links

• Neon Bull at the Internet Movie Database