Sometimes, unintended timing is all it takes for a film to feel relevant. A part of last January’s 2021 Sundance Film Festival, “Pink Cloud” is a Brazilian film that eerily predicted a world in lockdown. Shot in 2019, its filmmaker, Luli Gerbase, could never predict what would happen to society a few months later. The film’s two central characters, a young couple, meet at a party, but end up in lockdown together when a toxic pink cloud suddenly shows up, poisoning the outdoor air. IMuch like “15 days to stop the spread,” what seems like something that might pass in a few days turns into years. What may have felt trite and mundane in the pre-COVID world turns into a film that has enough vision to predict the virological dilemma we currently are in. Too bad then that, in its second half, “The Pink Cloud” stumbles when it decides to become a relationship drama rather than a prescient film about lockdowns, screen over-usage and desperate isolation. [C+]
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