Working Class Heroes: Karim Aïnouz on Futuro Beach
I, I wish you could swim I, I wish you could swim Like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim Though nothing, nothing will keep us together We can beat them, for ever and ever Oh we can be heroes David Bowie, “Heroes” “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 Bowie anthem. “That’s the song that actually started Futuro Beach for me. Maybe it was excessive, but I don’t care.” Italics mine: the polite, affable […]
by Howard Feinstein on Feb 25, 2015