Sometimes you have to take the bull by the tail — which applies just as much to director Gabriel Mascaro’s seemingly backward approach to “Neon Bull” as it does to the bizarre Brazilian rodeo scene ...

Many filmmakers obsess over characters living on the margins of civilization, but Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro has the rare ability to burrow inside their experiences. In two narrative features ...

From Blue Is the Warmest Color to Stranger by the Lake, from Pride to The Danish Girl, movies dealing with LGBT issues or characters have become ever more present at film festivals and cineplexes ...

Kino Lorber has acquired all North American rights to Brazilian writer-director Gabriel Mascaro‘s second fiction film, “Neon Bull.” The film was the winner of the Horizons Special Jury Prize at this ...

“Rodeo drama” isn’t the most popular cinematic subgenre, although the likes of “Junior Bonner” and “The Lusty Men” have proved that there’s a lot of beauty and heartache among those bucking broncos.

Stately, earthy, graphic, riveting: Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull is one of those art-house studies that plops the camera down someplace far from us and, in exquisite long takes, examines the lives that ...

The sensorial cinema of Gabriel Mascaro, who turned the life of a group of cowhands into a poetic experience in Neon Bull (Boi Neon), was the big winner at the 17th edition of Rio de Janeiro’s ...

Paris-based Memento Films Artscope, the sales agent’s enterprising world cinema arthouse label, has acquired international rights to “Neon Bull,” the second fiction feature from Gabriel Mascaro, a ...

As a gritty, bordering-on-documentary look at a most unfamiliar milieu, “Neon Bull” scores some points. It’s also a blast of cold water on any starry-eyed illusions you may harbor about humanity — ...

As bizarre and unvarnished as it comes, this story of a cowboy with a dream is universal Writer/director Gabriel Mascaro has created a great film in Neon Bull (Boi Neon). It is a movie with the breath ...

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