An imprisoned teen tries to escape in 7 Prisoners, Netflix’s powerful addition to the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra category. But 18-year-old Mateus (Christian Malheiros) isn’t in a convent…
), locks him and his co-workers into the complex, playing mind games and demanding long hours. While some try to run for it, Mateus develops a strategy which involves impressing the boss and becoming his right hand man. But will the plan work, or will he be sucked into the other side of human trafficking?, who co-wrote the screenplay with Thayná Mantesso.
Malheiros is excellent as Mateus, a sympathetic hero who also has some common ground with Tim Robbins’ character in. He’s a clever, wrongly imprisoned man who must strategize and play the long game in order to have a hope of escape. The perils that could await Mateus are worse, of course: Luca carries a gun and knows exactly where all his enslaved workers’ families live. He manages to keep them in line with the threat of destroying the one thing everyone cares about: family.
Brazilian-American filmmaker Moratto proved his instinctive understanding of Brazil’s low-income communities with the terrificestablishes him firmly as a talented filmmaker telling important stories from the region — and it’s as engaging as it is depressingly, brutally educational.
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