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01.08.2022 - 16:43 / variety.com
Anna Marie de la Fuente Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat’s provocative drama “Rule 34” (“Regra 34”) has shared its trailer exclusively with Variety before its bow at the Locarno Film Festival.If the trailer is anything to go by, the movie will make the filmmakers behind “50 Shades of Gray” blush. “Rule 34” competes in the official section of the Swiss festival which posts the following disclaimer on its site: “This film features scenes that could shock the sensitivity of some viewers.”As explained in the Urban Dictionary, Rule 34 refers to “the 34th rule of the Internet, which states that any object, character, or media franchise imaginable has porn associated with it.”“Rule 34” turns on 23-year-old Simone (played by Sol Miranda) who studies criminal law and advocates for women’s rights.
By day she studies law and martial arts; by night she performs in front of a live sex cam in exchange for tokens. One night, while watching a BDSM film online, she is transfixed by the expression of fear and ecstasy on the girl’s face.
This awakens her dark impulses for a more dangerous means of sexual gratification. The trailer opens on Simone laughing and gasping as her friend strangles her with a belt followed by scenes of her double life: teasing her online viewers at night and attending law classes during the day.Produced by Murat’s Esquina Filmes, Rio de Janeiro-based Bubbles Project and France’s Still Moving, “Rule 34” received backing from the Sweden’s Göteborg Audiovisual Fund as part of its government initiative to defend democracy worldwide where it believes that culture is imperilled.
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Brazilian filmmaker Julia Murat clinched the Golden Leopard prize in the main international competition of the 75th Locarno Film Festival with her latest feature Rule 34.
Guy Lodge Film Critic“Rule 34,” a challenging and sexually explicit film from Brazilian director Julia Murat, has emerged as the surprise winner of the Golden Leopard award at this year’s Locarno Film Festival — an edition where typically audacious and formally ambitious work dominated the program.
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