Divine Love (2019)

Original title

Divino Amor

Directed by

Gabriel Mascaro

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 84 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A deeply religious clerk in a government office works to stop couples from getting divorced. She believes she is doing God's work. When her own marriage goes through a crisis, she turns even more to her faith.

contemplativeintrospectiveemotionally restrainedmildly unsettlingslowmelancholicthoughtfulgrounded

What happens

Divine Love (Portuguese: Divino Amor) is a 2019 Brazilian drama film directed by Gabriel Mascaro. It was screened in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of a deeply religious registry office clerk who uses her position at the births, deaths and marriages department to try to dissuade couples from getting a divorce. Joana (Dira Paes) does everything in the name of the sanctity of marriage and the Christian family. As she waits for a sign of recognition for all her efforts, a marital crisis of her own brings her even closer to God. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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