Cecília, a successful young model, returns to Recife, her hometown, to spend Christmas with her mother. One night, a neighbour she hadn’t seen for a long time, João, shows her a bottle with a mysterious and intoxicating green substance. Cecília begins to fall in love with João, but also discovers he is involved in a secret cult around the figure of Salomé, the luxurious biblical princess.
/ EXHIBITION
/ Details
Year: 2024
Country: Brazil
Language: portuguese
Subtitles: english
With: Aura do Nascimento, Fellipy Sizernando, Renata Carvalho, Zuba Neves, Clara Maria Matos, Danny Barbosa, Everaldo Pontes, Geyson Luiz
/ Direction
André Antônio
Brazil
André Antônio (Recife, Brazil, 1988) worked as a film editor for several films from Pernambuco before founding, alongside filmmakers Chico Lacerda, Fábio Ramalho and Rodrigo Almeida, the independent queer film collective Surto & Deslumbramento. In 2015, his first feature, The Cult, premiered at Festival do Rio and was exhibited in many international film festivals. Salomé is his second feature, after filming the medium-length Venus in Nykes in 2021.
Photo: Neto