“Middle-aged Marcelo has a memory like no other. Monologuing between coffee and hookups, he holds court on a wide variety of topics: his lovers, his HIV status, his chronic headaches, his Catholic grandmother, his homophobic father, and his unusual sexual fantasies. At times, he takes himself for Genghis Khan, poet-philosopher Novalis, or a French courtesan; at others, he talks about Bataille or the Saint whose name he has forgotten. From Gustavo Vinagre (I Remember the Crows; Nova Dubai) and Rodrigo Carneiro, The Blue Rose of Novalis is a documentary-style portrait of a singular man that blurs the line between the “real” and the staged.” —Film at Lincoln Center
THE BLUE ROSE OF NOVALIS / A ROSA AZUL DE NOVALIS
A film by Gustavo Vinagre and Rodrigo Carneiro
(Brazil, 2019, 70 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
Now streaming on MUBI
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