Andre and Diego are two former filmmakers that are dealing with the 30-years-old crisis. After a five-year absence, Diego returns to the urban sprawl of São Paulo, immediately reconnecting with his close college friend André. Both men find themselves deeply infected by a shared "Peter Pan Syndrome," stranded in their early thirties, unable to transition into mature adulthood or achieve their creative dreams of working in cinema. André’s long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Júlia, has completely stagnated into an uninspired, passionless routine, prompting him to compulsively chase external validation by cheating on her with other women. Meanwhile, a driftless Diego moves back into his parents' house and reignites a volatile, highly clandestine affair with his old flame, Helena, after a college reunion—ignoring the reality that she is already locked into a stable relationship with another man. Operating with a raw, low-budget indie aesthetic, the film follows the messy, overlapping infidelities of a group of urban creatives desperately trying to outrun their creeping emotional maturity.
Cheating Notes
Andre and Diego are two former filmmakers that are dealing with the 30-years-old crisis. After a five-year absence, Diego returns to the urban sprawl of São Paulo, immediately reconnecting with his close college friend Andre.
Andre and Julia, his live-in girlfriend, talk in the nude (00:26).
Andre and Julia screw on the dining table (06:49).
At a mini college reunion in a bar, Diego reunites with his ex-girlfriend, Helena, who is accompanied by her live-in fiancé, Pedro (15:15). She flips her hair several times while talking to Diego—a subtle sign of flirting—and even does so while her fiancé's arms are around her.
Meanwhile, at the same reunion, a young chick (whom we will later know as Ana) seduces Andre while dancing (17:18). They have sex in a standing position (19:44).
Pedro leaves the reunion party early, saying he will grade some tests tomorrow, and permits Helena to stay and be with Diego (21:20). I'm not sure what he's thinking, leaving his fiancee with her ex-boyfriend in a social, alcohol-fueled environment, regardless of whether he knows Diego is her ex or not. Of course, he will pay the price for his naivety: the ultimate price of cuckoldry.
After drinking a few more after Pedro left, Diego and Helena walk to his car (24:21). They face each other while standing against his car's front door. He states his desire to kiss her and have sex with her in the car, with no strings attached, and asks her if those days are gone. She says she thinks so, but when he kisses her, she doesn't object, and they make out against his car door (25:13). They then drive away and the scene cuts to black.
A few months later, Pedro tells Helena that something's changed about her in the past few months. He confronts her if it has something to do with Diego. We then get a flashback of Diego screwing her hard on the bed on the night of the reunion (27:49).
A co-worker of Julia notices Americo, their boss, checking her out while they are out at a cafe (36:47). Knowing that Americo likes Julia based on a previous conversation—or in her words, that he wants to screw her—she fans the flames by telling him she has observed that Julia is sex-deprived lately, not just for days, but for months. This encourages Americo to hit on Julia.
Americo chats up Julia at the bar's entrance (40:09). He starts dancing with her. It seems that Julia's co-worker is right, as she enjoys her dance with her boss and doesn't mind their hands wrapped in an embrace and their bodies pressed against each other.
Andre has sex with Ana again (42:27).
Later in the night, Julia and her colleagues are still hanging out at the cafe. Americo tells her that he envies her boyfriend (45:50). He then starts caressing her hand, and she only pulls away after he takes hold of it. They are interrupted by a call from her boyfriend, who then comes to pick her up.
Diego and Helena have sex again, but this time, we don't see bed action (50:28).
Andre screws a middle-aged married woman he meets in one of the parties he's been attending lately (1:00:00).
Diego and Julia have a big fight and he walks away from their apartment (1:02:40).
After her big fight with Diego, Julia flirts more freely with her boss at a party (1:05:57). They go inside the venue's toilet room and make out passionately (1:07:36). He turns her body around to screw her from behind while she leans on the wall with her hand, but unfortunately, the camera only focuses on her mouth during that part.
Summary
The hottest cheating scene is the brief flashback between Helena and Julia at 27:49. Not so much between Julia and her boss at 1:07:36, because, although their kissing is hot, and their several flirting scenes before this were good, we don't actually see the part where he's screwing her from behind because the camera is focused on her mouth. Plus, Julia has basically broken up with her boyfriend at this point.
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