Burning Betrayal movie storyline. Burning Betrayal is a Brazilian erotic thriller, and just because it’s from south of the equator doesn’t mean it’s much different from the American or Polish erotic thrillers out there. You know the ones – the ones that function only as a means to stage absurdly overstylized sex scenes featuring people who indubitably work out way more than anyone you’ve ever met. Director Diego Freitas has a fetish for dramatic lighting but significantly less control of things like tonal consistency and coherent storytelling, not that any of that matters when you’re likely tuning in for the lusty escapades.
Everything is soaked in neon green as Babi (Giovanna Lancellotti) zooms through the streets of Sao Paulo on her motorcycle with a gentleman who follows her to a location that’s part Fast and Furious hangout garage and part flame-and-steam factory from an ’80s action movie. They embrace and mash face and IT WAS ONLY A DREAM. Babi awakens at her dining room table. Dozed off. Half-full wine glass. Laptop hanging open.
Sample flowes and pastries all over the table. She’s planning her wedding to Caio (Micael Borges), who comes home and pulls her clothes off and pins her to the sofa and – well, it’s all over pretty quickly, but at least he’s satisfied, right? Nothing’s ever perfect in life and sometimes we just have to accept things as they are, but in movies like this, if you can’t inspire your ladypartner to O-face until she sees eternity, you’re doomed. DOOOOMED.
Babi and Caio work together. They do… something. Import/export I think. Important people with fair amounts of disposable income in movies are always in the import/export business. Does she handle accounting? Maybe? Can’t tell for sure. She reveals she’s a business partner, though.
Among the employees are her friends Patty (Camilla de Lucas), who’s never not horny as a hundred goats, and Thiago (Bruno Mantaleone), a tortoise-shell-glasses-and-polo-shirt guy and non-neon-and-motorcycles-and-leather type in a neon-and-motorcycles-and-leather world.
Babi and Caio and Thiago attend an oversight hearing that has something to do with being affiliated with a criminal org masquerading as a construction company, and none of this has any real dramatic purchase in this movie, and can totally be shelved until the plot needs to rev up in the last 20 minutes. So the details of this potential legal trouble are all vague and unimportant, possibly because Babi just wasn’t satisfied by Caio’s thrust-and-moan the night before. Priorities! This is the way things are in absurd realities where sex is currency and money is just something you use to buy lingerie, expensive liquor and nights at swank hotel rooms.
The judge in charge of the hearing walks into the room all hot and dark and shiny, and he’s the guy from Babi’s dream. She sees him and all but melts right there in her chair. Marco (Leandro Lima) is his name. He takes a backseat briefly as Babi learns Caio has been cheating on her for two years, then finds herself in an ice-cream-and-wine-and-sobbing-while-she-burns-photos montage. I also think there were large slices of pie involved. But now she’s getting over it and, what with one thing and another, she ends up joining the Road Harpies Motorcycle Club (stay with me here), after suspecting that Marco is a member. And she’s right.
The MC takes a road trip and on that trip she and Marco acknowledge the spark between them by letting the rest of the world burn away until nothing exists but their two naked bodies locked together at the hips, their goosepimply bums thrusting as their wet, wet mouths gasp for air. Meanwhile, Babi has a stalker and could be in all sorts of danger, but she barely notices because it’s just not important since she’s getting laid, baby!
Burning Betrayal (2023)<0h4>
O Lado Bom de ser Traída
Directed by: Diego Freitas
Starring: Giovanna Lancellotti, Leandro Lima, Camilla de Lucas, Bruno Montaleone, Louise D’Tuani, Tatiana Cantalejo, Thadeu Matos, Reynaldo Machado, Aguida Aguiar, Diego Freitas, Vanessa Mello
Screenplay by: Sue Hecker, Davi Kolb, Camila Raffanti
Cinematography by: Victor Alencar
Film Editing by: Renato Gaiarsa
Art Direction by: Lucas Lukera Andrade
Music by: Ed Côrtes
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: October 25, 2023
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