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| Portuguese | Modo Avião |
| Directed by | César Rodrigues |
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Production company | A Fábrica |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Brazil |
| Language | Portuguese |
Airplane Mode (Portuguese: Modo Avião) is a 2020 Brazilian comedy film directed by César Rodrigues from a screenplay by Alberto Bremer and written by Renato Fagundes and Alice Name-Bomtempo. It stars Larissa Manoela, Erasmo Carlos, Katiuscia Canoro, André Frambach and Dani Ornellas.[1] The film was released on 23 January 2020 by Netflix.[2]
Plot
Ana, a fashion design student dreaming of becoming a great stylist, drops everything to become a digital influencer for a famous brand she works for called True Fashion, she spends time with her boyfriend Gil and lives with her parents, her boss Carola predicts that Ana she will be moving into a new house with Gil, but during the couple's one-month anniversary dinner date, Gil announces live that he will be breaking up with Ana, which leads Ana having a heated argument with Carola on the phone during her drive back home, during this, she crashes her car, and she is forced into a digital detox by her parents at her grandpa's farm house as a court order treatment.
She struggles at first with the experiences with her grandpa Germano, who doesn't know what she has been through, one night she does a small break-in at a convenience store to get toilet paper, soon enough she is stopped by João, a person who took her on the journey, and they slowly start to form a relationship.
After a argument formed by Ana and another child between a phone, Ana tells Germano that he judged her but didn't listen to her, and he takes her to "the most beautiful view in the world" which her grandma used to visit, Ana tells Germano about her life and he shows her a room she was not allowed to enter before, which contains many memories of her grandma, this inspires Ana and she makes a new collection called "Meridiana" a mix of her and her grandma's name.
During her time in her grandpa's she starts visiting João more often, at a festival they share their first kiss, but a girl called Clara tells that after Gil broke up with her he has been seeing her best friend, Mara, Ana finds a phone and sees the pictures of them dating, and she unsuccessfully tries to return back to the city.
One day, her parents along with Carola and her assistant Fausto visit her, Carola sees the collection and thinks it is something new to show off to, but unbeknownst to Ana, she steals it. When they visit the festival, a picture she took with her parents exposes a man behind her, which is an ad for a farming company, she quickly realizes that is the same man that prosecuted her into the detox, who is actually an actor and realizes that everything was fake and she has been living a made-up life, she storms out and returns back to the city.
Sometime later she moves into a new apartment block to have a fresh start, and isolates herself from her family, including João, after a post sent by João of the True Fashion night poster, which is Gil and Mara wearing Ana's Meridiana collection, she decides to secretly sneak into True Fashion and try to expose Carola in front of everyone, in which she is using her collection for their winter collection, it successfully works after capturing some footage, she and João reunite and they live a happy life. In the credits, it is shown that Carola has gotten arrested.
Cast
| Character | Actor (Brazilian Portuguese) | Voice Actors (English Dub) |
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| Ana | Larissa Manoela | Brianna Knickerbocker |
| Germano | Erasmo Carlos | Doug Stone |
| Carola | Katiuscia Canoro | Roxanna Ortega |
| João | André Frambach | Nick Thurston |
| Inácio | Michel Bercovitch | Devin Henessey |
| Laura | Sílvia Lourenço | Julie Ann Taylor |
| Rebeca | Mariana Amâncio | Angie Sarkisyan |
| Fausto | Phellyx Moura | Dani Ornellas |
| Julia | Nayobe Nzainab | Daisy Koprowski |
| Gil | Eike Duarte | Kyle McCarley |
| Mara | Amanda Orestes | Julia Griswold |
| Victoria | Helga Nemetik | |
| Actor | Adriano Fanti |
Production
In April 2019, it was announced during the 2019 Rio2C (Rio Creative Conference) event that Netflix would produce its first Brazilian comedy film starring Larissa Manoela.[3] In July 2019, it was announced that Erasmo Carlos, Katiuscia Canoro, André Frambach and Dani Ornellas had joined the cast of the film. The quality of the English dub was reported to be poor with bad lipsync.[4]
Reception
It was met with negative reviews, with most criticism pointed at the English dub due to its poor quality, bad lipsync, and lack of realistic expression. John Serba of Decider wrote, "Airplane Mode is sloppy and formulaic, more feelblah than feelgood, and as deep as a puddle on the arid steppes of Patagonia".[5]
References
- ↑ "Larissa Manoela and Erasmo Carlos start filming the Brazilian comedy Airplane Mode". Netflix Media Center. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ↑ "Turn on 'Airplane Mode'". The Savvy Screener. 16 January 2020. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
- ↑ "Netflix anuncia produções com Porchat, Maisa, Larissa Manoela e Wagner Moura". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). 24 April 2019. Archived from the original on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ↑ "Larissa Manuela e Erasmo Carlos iniciam gravações de filme da Netflix". Folha de Pernambuco (in Portuguese). 26 July 2019. Archived from the original on 26 July 2019. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
- ↑ Serba, John (27 January 2020). "Stream It Or Skip It: 'Airplane Mode' on Netflix, in Which Larissa Manoela plays a Ditzy Influencer Who Goes to the Country to Become Less Ditzy". Decider. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.