![]() ![]() The performances are stellar, especially Maricielo Effio in a complex and challenging role as a woman who awakens screaming from nightmares about returning to her destitute past. ![]() GODS is a terrific, ambitious film nicely shot with a vibrant visual glitz, buoyed by beautiful bodies and some unexpected dark humor. He considers working for his father’s factory where he is guaranteed a position no matter how incompetent he may be but he’s a mostly lost soul until his eyes are opened one day when follows his maid home and sees how the other half lives. Despite his sexual hang-ups regarding his sister, Diego rejects the wastrel life of his friends with their endless partying, drinking, and drugging. Most of GODS is told through the eyes of either Elissa or Diego. Elissa comes from poverty and sees as her job pleasing Augustin, so walks around the house naked for his entertainment and tries desperately to keep up with all the other rich wives by studying botany, the Bible and Greek mythology. This unhealthy sibling relationship (made a bit more obvious in a later scene where Diego masturbates over her passed out body) is at the center of GODS, which focuses a family in Peru rounded out by the teen’s wealthy father Augustin (Edgar Saba) and his live-in ‘trophy wife’ fiancee Elissa (Maricielo Effio), who’s only a couple of years older than Andrea. GODS begins with sexy teen Andrea (Anahi de Cardenas), dancing to techno music with several men while her shaggy-haired slightly younger brother Diego (Sergio Gjurinovic) watches angrily from the sidelines, ultimately berating her first chance he gets. This movie has been premiered in Australian HD theatres in 2008 (Movies 2008). You can watch Dioses online on video-on-demand services (Netflix, HBO Now), pay-TV or movie theatres with original audio in Spanish. ![]() ![]() Elisa, the latest of the paternal conquests, who has just arrived in this. A whole society lives there, cut off from the rest of the world, like gods. ![]()
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