“Futuro Beach,” a sensual film about love, displacement and self-discovery, gets off to an arresting start, then hypnotically takes its sweet, beautiful time exploring the ups and downs of a lost soul ...

Recent European films like Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake have drawn on the visual vocabulary of porn to make sex look like a chore only the compulsive would ...

“Futuro Beach” begins with a German tourist drowning by Brazil’s Praia do Futuro. Lifeguard Donato (Wagner Moura) breaks the bad news to the deceased’s travel companion, Konrad (Clemens Schick), and ...

“How could I do the movie without that song?” Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz asks rhetorically. I’ve just noted the few jabs he’s taken for ending his vibrant new film with the arguably overused ...

Director Karim Aïnouz kicks off “Futuro Beach” with a tumultuous sequence off the coast of Brazil, where a lifeguard (Wagner Moura) saves a German tourist (Clemens Schick) but fails to rescue his ...

NewFest, New York’s LGBT film festival held annually with the support of Outfest and Lincoln Center, has announced the lineup for its 2014 program, scheduled for July 24-29. Karim Aïnouz’s “Futuro ...

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