The Other End

The Other End

2016 · 92 min · PT · 6.5 (41 votes)
Dir. Felipe Sholl · Starring Karine Teles, Tom Karabachian, Denise Fraga, Emílio de Mello, Anita Ferraz, Daniel Rangel
Drama

Diogo (17) has a little quirk: he likes to call his mother's female therapy patients and masturbate while listening to them on the phone. One of these patients is Angela (43), a woman who was just left by her husband When Diogo calls Angela, she thinks it's her husband calling. She starts having a relationship with the silence on the other end of the line. But when she finds out it's Diogo, she's disgusted. She's furious. But, most of all, she's attracted to this person who showed so much interest in her. The only person who called her every day. Diogo helps Angela see that she can have a new beginning and she shows him his way to independence. But they have to face a number of obstacles: There's the age difference, Diogo's mother, and, especially, his own path to adulthood.

VIBE

This film feels like a hushed, uncomfortable confession. It's a slow, intimate exploration of loneliness and forbidden connection, wrapped in a quiet, arthouse aesthetic. A deeply unsettling yet strangely compelling character study.

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