Music Box Films released the official trailer for Medusa, the Brazilian ‘genre-hopping’ film from writer-director Anita Rocha da Silveira, and considered a follow-up to her 2015 film Kill Me Please. In the film, a gang of young women in Brazil try to control everything around them, including other women.
Starring in the film are Mari Oliveira, Lara Tremouroux, Joana Medeiros, Felipe Frazão, Thiago Fragoso, Bruna G, and Bruna Linzmeyer.
The film an official selection of Toronto International Film Festival, and AFI Fest opens on July 29 at the Angelika in New York City and the Laemmle Noho and Alamo Drafthouse DTLA in Los Angeles. A national rollout will follow.
Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift. Nightmares of repressed desires and haunting visions of alluring temptation become undeniable and the urge to scream and release her paralyzing inner demons is more powerful than ever before. A neon-tinged genre-bender that gives provocative form to the overwhelming feminine fury coursing through modern life, Medusa dares us not to look away.
Watch the official trailer for Medusa.
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