When Wellington(João Pedro Mariano) comes of age in a juvenile detention center, he finds himself alone, adrift on the streets of São Paulo, with no resources to start a new life and no news of his parents - we understand, during a brief telephone exchange with his mother, that his father, a policeman, does not accept his homosexuality.
Baby will be released in cinemas from March 19, 2025.
Synopsis: On his release from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo, with no news of his parents and no resources to start a new life. During a visit to a porn cinema, he meets Ronaldo, a mature man who teaches him new ways to survive. Little by little, their relationship develops into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity.
During a visit to a porn theater, the angular young man meets Ronaldo(Ricardo Teodoro), a middle-aged man who teaches him new ways to survive by earning a little money. But little by little, their relationship turns into a conflicting passion, oscillating between exploitation and protection, jealousy and complicity. " Stop being such a baby ", Ronaldo tells Wellington, who is looking for a protector.
With his new feature, Baby, unveiled at Critics' Week, Marcelo Caetano signs a searing queer work in which male bodies are made and unmade as the night progresses. The subtext is the mechanics of establishing relationships of strength and power (young/old, rich/poor, and even physical, thin/coated, beardless/bearded) orchestrated by certain ogresque figures who devour the young adult from within, as he searches for security and freedom.
Probing the high points of homosexual encounters - a sauna, a gay porn cinema where bodies are exchanged in full view of everyone, a cruising session in a park - the Brazilian director turns his benevolent gaze on the youth of São Paulo who fight to exist socially - by living off petty trafficking and coming together within a chosen family, that of voguing, offering graceful dance sequences. But also about a carnal love story that oscillates between body and heart.
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