”45 do Segundo Tempo” is the name of the film directed by Luiz Villaça, a green-blooded Palmeiras native, one of those works of art that provoke laughter and tears, because they amuse, move and make you think.
Villaça managed the feat of bringing together three actors, Tony Ramos, Cassio Gabus Mendes and Ary França, as if they formed a trio in the style of Ademir da Guia, Dudu and César, for the older ones, or Raphael Veiga, Dudu and Weverton for the older ones. boys.
But they could also be Pelé, Coutinho and Pepe, Sócrates, Casagrande and Wladimir, or Leônidas da Silva, Raí and Rogério Ceni, although it’s not just a movie about football.
It is much more, because it is about friendship, faith and lack of faith, and about, according to the Algerian writer Albert Camus, the only really relevant issue in philosophy: suicide.
Tony Ramos, from São Paulo, makes a person from Palmeiras as perfect as only he could be, just like Bruno Gagliasso played the torture delegate in the movie “Marighella”.
Also tricolor, Gabus Mendes is exuberant, alongside another tricolor, Ary França, in the role of a Corinthian priest who puts on a real show by getting drunk and questioning his faith in God.
If football imitates life and vice versa, Villaça thrashes by exposing how true the comparison is.
If that wasn’t enough, two exceptional actresses, such as Denise Fraga and Louise Cardoso, appear as protagonists in short, but precious, cameos.
The Baresi canteen, a tribute to one of the greatest defenders in the history of football, the Italian Franco Baresi, is bankrupt, and the owner, played by Tony Ramos, is willing to commit suicide as soon as Palmeiras is champion of the Brazilian Championship, in the last rounds, with Corinthians in the lead and Palmeiras in direct pursuit.
Gabus Mendes, in the role of a very successful lawyer, lives with the end of his marriage and tormented by discovering that his only child is gay.
Denise Fraga, in the role of his wife, lives an anthological scene when peeling a gossip. Yes, an anthology scene when peeling a gossip.
The priest, a virgin as priests must be, in a crisis of faith and ready to lose his virginity.
To tell more would be spoiling pleasures, and the best thing would be to tell the rare reader and the rare reader not to let them see the film, on the circuit from next May 12th.
But it is still possible to say that the three friends, after four decades without meeting each other, decide to relive their high school days at Dante Alighieri College and travel to Areado, a small town in Minas Gerais, 343 kilometers from São Paulo. There they hope to meet their schoolmate Soninha, played by Louise Cardoso, certain that they will see her as desirable as before.
In a way, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that Vilaça’s film closes a trilogy started by “Boleiros”, by Ugo Giorgetti, also from Palmeiras, and continued by “The wedding of Romeo and Juliet”, by Bruno Barreto, who doesn’t support any team or football league.
Films that made the actor Otávio Augusto in the role of referee and Luis Gustavo as the alviverde father of Julieta unforgettable.
Now, “45 do Segundo Tempo” will immortalize Tony Ramos in the role of Pedro Baresi.
Giorgetti, Barreto and Villaça form another formidable trio in this tough endeavor to maintain a high level of Brazilian cinema.
Will Palmeiras be champions? Will Pedro Baresi commit suicide?
May 12th at a cinema near you
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