The Pink Cloud

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The Pink Cloud

R

2022

1h 55m

Drama

Sci-Fi

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A mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears across the globe, forcing everyone to stay home. Strangers at the outset, Giovana and Yago try to invent themselves as a couple as years of shared lockdown pass. While Yago is living in his own utopia, Giovana feels trapped deep inside.

Critics Consensus

An eerily relevant debut from writer-director Iuli Gerbase, The Pink Cloud reaches into the emotional fault lines of pandemic life and comes away with striking observations about human behavior.

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

01/21/2022

I was impressed, agitated, terrified, depressed by this movie - but I also couldn't help feeling like I had maybe not ultimately seen the film its director wanted me to see.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

01/20/2022

If you're game for an emerging filmmaking talent's stingingly uncanny foretelling, "The Pink Cloud" is an arresting examination of what it can look like when existence is misshaped into a compromised destiny.

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Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

01/20/2022

2/4

"The Pink Cloud" is prescient and mildly affecting, if also susceptible to the question: Is it too soon to be watching a pandemic allegory while we're still living through a pandemic?

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

03/05/2022

This film feels surprisingly calm and reassuring. In a world weary from a global pandemic, that’s worth a lot.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

03/04/2022

It’s an intelligent, well-crafted drama, though I’m not sure whether it benefits or suffers from an imaginatively-conceived story that fate has instead rendered all too experientially familiar.

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Douglas Davidson

Elements of Madness

03/01/2022

3.5/5

... "The Pink Cloud" is a searing and raw experience, ripping up centuries of patriarchal thinking and holding it to the light.

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Lorry S

@Lorz100 05/16/2024

Spoiler alert: I would have liked to have known what caused it. If it ever stopped. The ending more definitive.I But.....I did like the story about how people are different with coping with such a dilemma.

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dave d

@RT34924333 04/18/2022

The Pink Cloud is a Brazilian family drama about a couple that just met that has to go into quarantine seemingly forever because of a pink cloud. This was filmed before Covid, however there are some pretty eerie similarities. There a few things that don't make any sense, including how this poison air that prevents people from going outside doesn't seep into the houses that people reside. It's not a tight film, but time skips for no reason which makes the pacing inconsistent and awkward. The entire film is vague, but I haven't seen a movie in a long time that has such a self-important feel. The entirety does not amount to much and falls flat into the dustbin of cloudy unfocused features. Final Score: 3/10

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03/12/2022

Maybe if this was released pre-COVID times it would be more shocking, but most of the movie is a slow and subtle descent into the type of monotony most of us have experienced during the lock down phases of the pandemic. I expected a bit more of an apocalyptic / sci-fi feel, but it is more of a family drama.

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Iuli Gerbase

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Eduardo Mendonça

Yago

Girley Paes

Rui

Kaya Rodrigues

Sara

Renata de Lélis

Giovana

Helena Becker

Júlia

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Synopsis

A mysterious and deadly pink cloud appears across the globe, forcing everyone to stay home. Strangers at the outset, Giovana and Yago try to invent themselves as a couple as years of shared lockdown pass. While Yago is living in his own utopia, Giovana feels trapped deep inside.

Director: Iuli Gerbase
Producer: Luciana Tomasi, Patricia Barbieri
Screenwriter: Iuli Gerbase
Distributor: Blue Fox Entertainment
Production Co: Prana Filmes
Rating: R (Brief Drug Use|Some Language|Sexual Content/Nudity)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language: Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 14, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 1h 55m