A tape film, resolutely queer, feminist and feminine, these are the promises of the invigorating Rising. A Brazilian feature film, the first of its director Lillah Halla, built in a real punch against conservative Brazil with Bolsonaro sauce. A refreshing and exciting proposal, to discover now in physical format!
Child of the ball
Sofia (the great Ayomi Domenica for his first role) dreams of becoming professional in what is his passion: volleyball. While a sudden announcement promises her a future in this sport in Chile, she simultaneously learns that she is pregnant. Within a Brazil where abortion is illegal, its field of possibilities is reduced as a skin of grief.
Rising. Lift. This is a good starting point for the young Brazilian director's career Lillah Halla. For this first feature film, selected during the week of the review in Cannes, she explores the workings of a company stuck in regressive mechanics (Brazil of Bolsonaro to make it short, even if it is never quoted directly). Better, it shows how these reactionary sounds directly affect the existence of those who do not submit to the ambient morale...
Band film above all
If Rising is a strong political film, it avoids certain common grievances that can enamel this kind of feature film. For example, 24 hours in New York, a beautiful little film about transidentity which, however, was growing much too educational and theoretical. The same pitfall was waiting Rising At the turn, which does not escape with brilliance.
Indeed, if one understands that this women's volleyball team is not a lambda team (a short insert on a newspaper article even evokes the term "inclusive" to qualify the group), Rising However, it does not sacrifice its history to develop its purpose. Nevertheless, we understand the constant threats that are deaf, driven by the reactionary movements described above, and the lasting and constant impact that they place on those who do not subscribe to their vision of the world alternating between blind devotion to religion and persistent regressive impulses.
The team then plays the role of a security space, infra-world in which development is possible within a corrupt and comminatory global matrix. A particularly good feeling transcribed in the film thanks to the time spent by Lillah Halla to draw the contours of this group of friends, welded, escaping the screenshots usually emulating the representation of this kind of friendship with the cinema. A kind of Stand by Me where friendship would not be faced with the transition to adulthood, but with the persistent refusal to remain barboted in the miasms of this sick society. And only the maestria with which the director characterizes her characters and draws the contours of the friendships that bind her protagonists is widely worth viewing this Rising.
Why this movie?
Simone Veil would probably turn to her grave, yet since the 1975 law decriminalizing abortion in France, this fundamental right is only ever more weakened. Between the real difficulty of being able to access it, the increasing threats of possible backwards especially in Trump's America and – incidentally – the appointment of a Prime Minister openly hostile to IVG in the person of Michel Barnier, the indicators are not on the right level...
And this reactionary scelerate wave, the current (and often feminine) cinema has not forgotten to seize it. Between the Master Our body which documents from inside the turpitudes of the female body or the most recent The Lights of Aden The fictional story of a woman trying to get an abortion in Yemen where this right is not acquired, there are many examples. And no doubt Rising This collection of feminist, queers and modern films is a long-term feature. An artistic antidote to ambient morosity? Let's hope so! And while waiting for the next film by Lillah Halla (a musical out of the nails and black, according to his own terms), let's not miss his first feature film now available at Blaq Out.
Data sheet
DVD Zone B (France)
Publisher: Blaq Out
Duration: 95 min
Release Date: August 20, 2024
Video format : 576p/25 – 2.00
Soundtrack : Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles French
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