2022 · drama · sci-fi
Executive Order
Directed by Lázaro Ramos1h 42m2022
In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where they debate social and racial issues, and share the same yearning for the change of country.
Our read: Executive Order (2022) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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