2012 · drama · music
Artificial Paradises
Directed by Marcos Prado1h 39m2012
Nando and Erika, two young people in their twenties, meet several times without noticing. The story of the subculture of electronic music and rave parties and drugs like MDMA.
Our read: Artificial Paradises (2012) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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