With a toughtless "art movie" aesthetic" Divino Amor tries to be a mix of equal parts Il Deserto Rosso and Love but ends up being infinitely inferior to both and overrall just insufficient.
The film is 100 minutes long but it should've been 80 at most since there are a lot of absolutely unnecessary scenes that add absolutely nothing to the plot. Even though the film is bloated, that does not keep it from being underexplained and underdeveloped; The dystopian universe presented is shallow and colorless(not literally since the film indulges itself in a constant use of artificial lightning to achieve its pink/purple tone), we only see the lead character's office , a drive thru prayer station and the evangelical swing therapy thing. The film is basicly the lead going from one to the other countless times . The "social commentary" behind the film is absolutely ambiguous and unthought of as it starts as a brazillian evangelical dystopia and ends up as a yet another one christian vague metaphor films in which it just touches a delicate and complex subject without adding absolutely nothing to it; In this case the rebirth of christ, all it shows us is that it happened, that nobody believed her and that christ is a girl but that is about it. The ending is really unsatisfactory and seems forced, the lead's husband acts uncharacteristically irrational as the film delights itself in making the lead not explain what happened and instead speak in riddles to make sure the late conflict actually happens. Divino Amor is one of those films were you are tricked into thinking it has a lot to say but midway through it you end up realizing that it really doesn't.
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