We Still Have the Deep Black Night

"The movie brings a recurrent and current theme: the artist who dreams of living off their work, who wants to establish themselves professionally in society, and deals with the constant lack of acceptance and opportunity. Despite dealing with an easily identifiable theme, the movie falters a bit by presenting a cut that sounds very out of place from the Brazilian reality, more like a romanticized fantasy of a frustrated intellectual class in its bubble, which fixes itself on an idea, does not allow itself to go around its difficulties and also does not seek to update itself in its environment, creating the figure of the artist as a martyr, or perhaps the intention of the movie is precisely to make this small bourgeois caricatured portrait. Still worth the experience for the technical and original experimentalism that the movie builds, exalting and enriching the narrative form. We Still Have the Deep Black Night brings a recurring and current theme: the artist who dreams of making a living from their work, who desires to be professionally established in society, and deals with the constant lack of acceptance and opportunity. Although it deals with an easily identifiable theme, the film falters a bit by presenting a cut that feels very disconnected from the Brazilian reality, more like a romanticized fantasy of a frustrated intellectual class in its bubble, which fixates on one idea, does not allow itself to navigate its difficulties, and also does not seek to stay up-to-date in its environment, creating the figure of the artist as a martyr, or perhaps the intention of the film is precisely to make this small bourgeois caricatured portrait. Nevertheless, the experience is still worthwhile for the technical and original experimentalism that the film builds, exalting and enriching the narrative form."