It is one of the works of the controversial filmmaker who won the grand prize of critics in the Venice film festival.
Joao Cesar Monteiro had a film career unique in our country. Always doing whatever he wanted, no questions asked. He was considered a genius and as such strangely had access to all kinds of public funding for his projects in detriment of other Portuguese filmmakers. A public-private partnership that ended the best possible way possible with the famous "Snow White" which aroused so much controversy and embarrassed the Ministry of Culture. It was well done! You do not ask a madman just out of an asylum to do one more cinematic torture. To the more enlightened of the world (if you must know), sometimes we must give them time, space and serenity to come out with something more constructive and not that was ever the case of João César Monteiro. Quite the contrary. That said; let's talk about one of the works of the late filmmaker, the second in a trilogy, "god's comedy," who I do not truly appreciate. Although, having seen this very long film with many reservations, this work, in particular, always causes me a certain uneasiness that I have to admit it. Putting that aspect aside, Monteiro is without a doubt, the most conceptualist of Portuguese filmmakers. Define this cinematography is a thankless task, to better understand him I quote in order to avoid potential misunderstandings, "remains for me to recognize the moral solitude of a cinematography practice carved in a double refusal to be a kind of rental car of the exploiting class and worst, to exchange this profound change for any demagogic neo-populism form, transporting and selling the miserable illusion of serving, thru an abusive proxy, interests that are not mine." Got it? Returning to the film, this one in particular has an interesting premise, a man, John of God, collects women's pubic hair that he keeps in a notebook called the book of thoughts. The process of "harvest" involves a cow's milk bath of the unsuspecting victims, employees of the same ice cream shop where he works called "Ice Cream Paradise" (very appropriate name), that in the end he strains. But them comes a day when something goes wrong and one of these encounters will be very disastrous for his insignificant existence. I say no more see it with your own eyes. Good movie!
