O Grande Poeta

Comic character actor André Mattos directs, writes and performs as the title character in this highly unusual short film. He's a poet walking through the night and meeting all sorts of characters and of all walks-of-life, expressing his contempt for certain life events, or professing his admiration to some female companion who comes his way. This Bukowski type of poet keeps rambling about death, mortality and the emptiness of it all.

Was there a higher meaningful purpose to it? Perhaps but Mattos hides it from us. For the most part, it's all rambling rants or him saying wrong things that could get him into trouble, as evidenced with his conversation with the arab bartender (Leonardo Miggiorin) after saying he didn't feel a thing when he heard the news of a school that was on fire and several children had died. This poet is only interested in the living thing between his legs, all horny for the women who comes his way.

One keeps waiting for something drastic to happen but nothing goes beyond a dull routine of being opposed to everything and everyone.

It was an okay experience, some dialogues work just fine but overall it's quite disappointing since one expects a level of deterioration and decadence that can make us feel the man's pain or just despise him becaus he's a contemptous hateful man. Mattos films everything through his cellphone and some shots are painfully erratic and weird to see but the whole bar sequence was quite good and thrilling to watch. Manageable short film but very pretentious and without any depth. Miggiorin steals the show and made this something worth seeing. 6/10.