Hopefuls (2019)
Hopefuls
”Junior dreams of becoming a famous football player, but struggles with jealousy and a pregnant girlfriend.”
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Why watch this film?
'Aspirantes' deserves to be seen for two big reasons. The first is that, to launch it, the producers had a Herculean trajectory. Recorded a few years ago and selected at the Rio Festival in 2015, the film only saw the light of the movie theater projectors, in commercial circuit, only in 2019 - revealing the harsh reality of the Brazilian audiovisual market. The second reason is also a hard story, but that of its protagonist: a soccer player trying to make it to the professional level. A real, hard account of youth in big cities - after all, there are few who become great sports stars and make millions in Europe.
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Junior, as he's known since he's essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It's no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid - to become a famous football player. Although he trains hard with his team, he's not one of the best. He won't admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What's more, his prospects don't look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with his dominant mother...
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