The Blue Trail Director Gabriel Mascaro on Coming-of-Age Inversion, Playful Dystopias, and Conservative Awakenings

It’s a scenario that, under certain fascistic goverments, may not seem so far away: in order to increase economic output, the elders of society are mandated to live out their lives in far-off colonies. This is the backdrop of Gabriel Mascaro’s Berlinale Silver Bear winner The Blue Trail, a wonderfully expressive Brazilian drama following Tereza […] The post The Blue Trail Director Gabriel Mascaro on Coming-of-Age Inversion, Playful Dystopias, and Conservative Awakenings first appeared on The Film Stage.