Air Conditioner (2020)
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- Synopsis:
- An extraordinary story that navigates trough the magical neo-realism of an old building in downtown Luanda. When the city's air-conditioners mysteriously start to fall, Matacedo (José Kiteculo - security guard) and Zezinha (Filomena Manuel - housemaid) have the mission of retrieving their boss's ac. This mission will take them trough a world full of water leaks, cracks, cages of noisy generators and hope when they enter the mysterious semi-abandoned electrical shop of the neighborhood.
- Actors:
- José Kiteculo, Filomena Manuel, David Caracol, Tito Spyck, Sacerdote, Filipe Kamela Paly, Wilson Medradas, Madalena Celestino Domingos Salgueiro, Ana Maria Celestino Salgueiro, Solange Caetano Feijó, Francisca Laura, Dimossi Madalena Pedro Francisco, Micaela Mazina Pedro Manuel, Cássio Magalhães Félix, Justino Kalei, Jéssica Júlio, Herlander Glenóide, Patrícia Rodrigues, Malaquias, Benilson Almeida
- Directors:
- Fradique
- Producers:
- Jorge Cohen
- Writers:
- Ery Claver, Fradique
- Genres:
- Comedy, Drama
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Reviews (1) of Air Conditioner
What Falls, What Flickers, What Remains - Air Conditioner review by griggs
You don’t expect a film about a broken air conditioner to feel so weighty—or so oddly lyrical. In Air Conditioner, machines rain down from Luanda’s balconies while a quiet security guard and housemaid embark on a slow, drifting mission to retrieve a fallen unit. Around them, life continues with a kind of dreamy weariness.
The story is threadbare, but that’s not really the point. What matters is the mood: warm, woozy, and gently surreal. Jazz plays. Lights flicker. People speak in silences as much as words. Matacedo, our aimless guide, encounters a man who claims to have built a machine that can collect Angola’s memories. It’s hard to tell if he’s joking.
Magical realism doesn’t feel like a flourish here—it feels like a necessity. In a postcolonial city fraying at the edges, reality itself seems out of reach. Not everything in Air Conditioner works. It meanders. It mystifies. But it also leaves a faint charge in the air, like something switched off but still warm to the touch.