Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review on “The Book of Delights,” and adaptation of a famous South American novel that is a production of Brazil and Argentina, currently available for digital download or through Video On Demand beginning on September 2nd, 2022.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
An adaptation from a novel by the late Clarice Lispector, Lóri (Simone Sploladore) is a lonely and melancholy woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses (Javier Drolas), a renowned professor of philosophy, somewhat self-centered. And even as Ulysses seems elusive, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her own loneliness.
”The Book of Delights” is available for digital download or through Video On Demand starting September 2nd. Featuring Simone Sploladore, Javier Drolas, Felipe Rocha, Gabriel Stauffe and Martha Nowill.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
An adaptation from a novel by the late Clarice Lispector, Lóri (Simone Sploladore) is a lonely and melancholy woman who divides her time between her tasks as an elementary school teacher and her romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. By chance, she meets the Argentine Ulysses (Javier Drolas), a renowned professor of philosophy, somewhat self-centered. And even as Ulysses seems elusive, it is with him that Lóri will learn to love and face her own loneliness.
”The Book of Delights” is available for digital download or through Video On Demand starting September 2nd. Featuring Simone Sploladore, Javier Drolas, Felipe Rocha, Gabriel Stauffe and Martha Nowill.
- 9/1/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
If one is looking for a bit of erotic romance to spice up your cinematic offerings as we approach the tail end of summer, look no further than Marcela Lordy’s Brazilian drama The Book of Delights. Based on the novel by celebrated writer Clarice Lispector, Film Movement will be releasing the Săo Paulo International Film Festival selection on September 2 and we’re pleased to exclusively debut the U.S. trailer.
Set in Rio de Janeiro, and based on Lispector’s playful novel, the film is a compelling character study that focuses on a complicated, intelligent, free spirit, Lóri (Simone Spoladore), a primary school teacher who divides her time between work and romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. Eventually emotionally dissatisfied by one-night stands, she begins a tenuous relationship with the renowned, self-confident Argentinian philosophy teacher, Ulisses (Javier Drolas). Headstrong, yet sympathetic, he works at breaking through her...
Set in Rio de Janeiro, and based on Lispector’s playful novel, the film is a compelling character study that focuses on a complicated, intelligent, free spirit, Lóri (Simone Spoladore), a primary school teacher who divides her time between work and romantic relationships, which are always quick and superficial. Eventually emotionally dissatisfied by one-night stands, she begins a tenuous relationship with the renowned, self-confident Argentinian philosophy teacher, Ulisses (Javier Drolas). Headstrong, yet sympathetic, he works at breaking through her...
- 8/24/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
M-Appeal has closed deals for two of its Ventana Sur titles: Marcela Lordy’s “The Book of Delights” to Pigeon Co. in Taiwan and “The Night of the Beast” from Mauricio Leiva Cock to HBO in Eastern Europe.
“The Book of Delights” is an Argentina-Brazil co-production between Cinematográfica Marcela and bigBonsai which had already sold in the U.S. and Japan before the Taiwan announcement was made. M-Appeal will be looking to secure deals in more territories during Ventana Sur.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction, unwilling to compromise her own agency. An attractive young teacher by day, Lóri engages in a string of casula affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher,...
“The Book of Delights” is an Argentina-Brazil co-production between Cinematográfica Marcela and bigBonsai which had already sold in the U.S. and Japan before the Taiwan announcement was made. M-Appeal will be looking to secure deals in more territories during Ventana Sur.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction, unwilling to compromise her own agency. An attractive young teacher by day, Lóri engages in a string of casula affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
International sales agency M-Appeal has closed two deals at Cannes Marché du Film for Marcela Lordy’s feature “The Book of Delights,” licensing to Film Movement in North America and At Entertainment in Japan.
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction without sacrificing any of her own self-determination. Described by the film’s literature as a “free spirited, independent and attractive teacher,” Lóri engages in a string of love affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher, Ulisses, famous in the field of philosophy to a degree which has over-inflated his ego. The encounter causes Lóri to re-evaluate her own decisions and kickstarts a journey of self-discovery, realization and human contact.
“The Book of...
Adapted from Clarice Lispector’s Brazilian novel “Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres,” “The Book of Delights” is the erotic story of Lóri, a woman on the lookout for sexual satisfaction without sacrificing any of her own self-determination. Described by the film’s literature as a “free spirited, independent and attractive teacher,” Lóri engages in a string of love affairs catering to her desires and needs while purposefully avoiding emotional attachments.
Eventually, she crosses paths with renowned philosophy teacher, Ulisses, famous in the field of philosophy to a degree which has over-inflated his ego. The encounter causes Lóri to re-evaluate her own decisions and kickstarts a journey of self-discovery, realization and human contact.
“The Book of...
- 7/8/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Milica Tomović has directed the Serbian comedy drama.
Modern Films has bought UK and Ireland rights to Milica Tomović’s Seriban comedy drama Celts from Germany’s M-Appeal. The film has also sold to Belas Artes Group for Brazil.
Celts was a premiere earlier this year in the Berlinale Panorama. It is set in war-torn Belgrade in the early 1990s and is the story of a woman who decides to discover what more life has to offer as she contemplates the drunken guests and inattentive husband at a family party. The cast is led by Dubravka Duda Kovjanić, Stefan Trifunović and Katarina Dimić.
Modern Films has bought UK and Ireland rights to Milica Tomović’s Seriban comedy drama Celts from Germany’s M-Appeal. The film has also sold to Belas Artes Group for Brazil.
Celts was a premiere earlier this year in the Berlinale Panorama. It is set in war-torn Belgrade in the early 1990s and is the story of a woman who decides to discover what more life has to offer as she contemplates the drunken guests and inattentive husband at a family party. The cast is led by Dubravka Duda Kovjanić, Stefan Trifunović and Katarina Dimić.
- 7/6/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Fresh off bullish sales on Berlin Festival Grand Jury Prize winner “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” sales company M-Appeal has just swooped on world rights to Brazilian Marcela Lordy’s “The Book of Delights” (“O Livro dos Praceres”) – part of a brace of first features from a new generation of young female Brazilian directors that is one of the most interesting new phenomena currently seen in Latin America movies.
Marking also the first fiction feature from Deborah Osborn’s bigBonsai, “The Book of Delights” is co-produced by Rizoma, a driving force of the New Argentine Cinema over the past two decades, creating straight arrow fest winners and more open movies on the arthouse side of mainstream.
The latter is the case of “The Book of Delights,” co-written by Lordy and Argentina’s Josefina Trotta whose writing credits include Martin Desalvo’s 2013 hit “Darkness by Day.”
“The Book of Delights” also...
Marking also the first fiction feature from Deborah Osborn’s bigBonsai, “The Book of Delights” is co-produced by Rizoma, a driving force of the New Argentine Cinema over the past two decades, creating straight arrow fest winners and more open movies on the arthouse side of mainstream.
The latter is the case of “The Book of Delights,” co-written by Lordy and Argentina’s Josefina Trotta whose writing credits include Martin Desalvo’s 2013 hit “Darkness by Day.”
“The Book of Delights” also...
- 3/18/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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