João Gabriel Barreto

João Gabriel Barreto

Freelancer producer
Filmmaking undergraduate

Favorite films

  • Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • Blue
  • Carol
  • Futuro Beach

Recent activity

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  • No Other Land

    ★★★★★

  • Flow

    ★★★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★★

  • Conclave

    ★★★★

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★★

    Fuck Israel

  • Flow

    Flow

    ★★★★★

    I was very suspicious of this film at first, but it just teared me apart entirely. I was blown away by the time the bird joins the gang and couldn't stop crying. What a beautiful, inventive story. It is very much lile a Noah's Arch animals' post-apocalyptical sort of picture. Truly incredible!

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  • The Substance

    The Substance

    ★★★★★

    This is one of those films we're gonna talk about for a long time... It is such a visceral, moving and profound screenplay that it pushes you out to the edge of your seat from the anxiety. I felt a lot of Cronenberg influence (The Fly), some Carrie, a beautiful homage to other films in the genre. The editing is almost perfect; I would have prefered that some elements were more subtle, but I guess they were adapted to the…

  • Rotting in the Sun

    Rotting in the Sun

    ★★★★

    I love Latin gay movies, they always have a fresh take on the subjects our community faces. At first, I thought this would be another sex-related movie with lots of cruising and poppers, which is no problem at all, but I was surprised to see the topic of suicide being talked about extensively. I feel like most gay guys with mental health issues flirt with the idea of suicide from a very young age and that sometimes comes along with…