Friday, June 24, 2022, 6:00pm New Parkway
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The title of the film,
Três Tigres Tristes, is a reference to a Portuguese tongue twister. The literal translation is
Three Sad Tigers, but the filmmaker opted for keeping the alliteration over the exact meaning. We meet three young people in São Paulo in the throes of a viral pandemic that causes amnesia. As they wander the city, they talk about old lovers and HIV, meet an online makeup star (who makes a video for her channel of giving one of them a new look), tag along as Pedro, who does online erotic shows, meets one of his few in-person clients. They then go on an errand for the client, finding themselves in the surreal salon of a cabaret singer, complete with a hairless guinea pig in drag, an adult baby dispensing cash from his diapers, and visits from the living and the dead.
The film starts off with a fairly matter-of-fact tone, but gets deeper and deeper into the dream state to an otherworldly, positively psychedelic ending, suggestive of having a fever dream while tripping balls on shrooms. Definitely not for everyone, but highly recommended if you’re into absurd weirdness.
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