Smart 7 2024

Greice

Leonardo Mouramateus | 2024 | 115'

SYNOPSIS

Greice is 21 years old, studies Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and works as a costume designer for the pop singer Lioness. Greice meets Alfonso while scouting locations for a music video. The two begin a relationship, but during a party they are involved in an incident that jeopardizes the renovation of Greice's Portuguese residence. She returns to her hometown in Brazil in hopes of resolving the situation, but is forced to confront some of the consequences of her lifestyle.

BIOGRAPHY

Leonardo Mouramateus

Leonardo Mouramateus was born in 1991 in Fortaleza, Brazil. He wrote and directed a number of award-winning shorts screened at festivals such as Festival del Film Locarno, Cinéma du Réel and IndieLisboa, among many others. The films also showed in museums like the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Recently, retrospectives of his work were presented at select institutions, most notably at La Cinémathèque Française. Leonardo Mouramateus presented his feature debut António Um Dois Três (2017) at Film Festival Rotterdam.

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Critical text

Mouramateus' new film is titled after its protagonist, whose name already hints at her origins. Greice (who has a younger sister named Kelly) pays homage to the famous American actress, with a Brazilian way of pronouncing (and writing) her name, in a nod to Hollywood culture, while also denoting the protagonist's humble and fanciful origins. A funny comedy that plays with the boundaries between reality and fiction, Greice also addresses the relationship between Brazil and Portugal, and the differences in culture and social class. CLÁUDIA MALHEIROS MUNHO.

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