A broken body in a white dress, lying lifeless in a swaying soya field. Who killed the trans woman Madalena, how and why is never revealed in the Brazilian film Madalena. In his assured debut, director Madiano Marcheti doesn't even reveal how the corpse was discovered. Yet the image of this motionless body lends an extra charge to everything that follows. Marcheti follows three protagonists in turn. They don't know one another, but are all in some way connected through Madalena. Luziane, a club hostess, knocks on her door for money. Wealthy Cristiano inspects the vast expanse of soya fields for his demanding father. Trans woman Bianca and her girlfriends divide Madalena's things between them while reminiscing. Marcheti shot the film in the agrarian region where he grew up, capturing with great visual flair this largely unfilmed rural part of Brazil. A place where big agricultural machinery crawls monster-like across the landscape and the farthest corners are known only to drones. A world that can also take on a spooky aspect – now and then, Marcheti inventively gives an eerie twist to even the most everyday scene. Madalena is above all a window on a world that is getting out of control. But Marcheti is also clearly making a statement about his country, which has the highest rate of murder of transgender people in the world. A plea for empathy, rather than pity.
#IFFR50# 金虎竞赛。联系微弱的三段式故事，影像上有些很不错的设计，比如大豆田里的大型农业机械，以及无人机镜头。不过实在是……有点太状态戏了，以及影片尝试讨论的是巴西针对跨性群体的谋杀（excuse me？？？），但跨性群体到第三段才真正出现。这部就属于观念比较出色但是呈现并不太友好的影片。
#IFFR2021主竞赛# 跨性别主角的生活片段和她被杀后的案件调查双线走向，前者的公路旅行片段会令人回忆起2019年柏林泰迪熊最佳剧情片《绿色星球简史》，然后发现果然也是巴西参与的，后者在调查过程中的镜像语言非常吸睛，包括广角镜下大片绿色农田上空的数架无人机，以及出现在夜色农田中的平行光源
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A broken body in a white dress lying lifeless in a swaying soya field. Who killed the trans woman Madalena how and why is never revealed in the Brazilian film Madalena. In his assured debut director Madiano Marcheti doesn't even reveal how the corpse was discovered. Yet the image of this motionless body lends an extra charge to everything that follows. Marcheti follows three...
立意不错，视听不错，呈现不佳，让人想起《绿色星球简史》。话说为了讲跨性别者被杀，为啥到第三个片段才开始真正讲？这也太状态流了，三个角度围绕一桩谋杀案，但关联性也太弱了点。跨性别者玛德琳那的死使她除了片头从未出现，但在三个主角的生活中却能拼凑出部分她的生活拼图，这一点还比较有趣。
