Magisk bioupplevelse utlovas i en trollbindande essäistisk kärleksförklaring till Rio de Janeiro, dess karneval och blomstrande queerscen.
Om Rio var en person, skulle den vara en transperson. Ikoniska Luana Muniz (1961–2017) agerar berättarröst i Evangelia Kraniotis hypnotiskt vackra film, som kombinerar party med politik, starka visuella intryck med en poetisk voice-over och vibrerande ljudbild. Tankar och reflektioner kring identitet, åldrande, och att leva som transperson i Rio blandas med utdrag ur Clarice Lispectors experimentella monolog Água Viva. Filmen tilldelades juryns pris under Teddy Awards på filmfestivalen i Berlin. Inspirerad av regissörens tid i Rio skildrar Obscuro Barocco en stad i ständig omvandling.

English:
France-based, Greek-born artist Evangelia Kranioti’s second feature-length film is a dreamy acid trip through Rio de Janeiro’s queer nightlife. Transgender activist and underground icon Luana Muniz (1961-2017) is the film’s guide, reciting poetic lines from late author Clarice Lispector’s experimental monologue Água Viva.

Like that book, Obscuro Barrocco avoids traditional narrative, drifting through clubs, street protests and carnival celebrations to capture the interplay of lights, fireworks, reflections, colour, gyrating bodies and the particular textures of makeup, glitter and aging body parts. It’s a dream-like film essentially fusing partying with politics, and Rio’s dazzling geography and architecture with human forms to suggest things otherworldly and transcendent.