| Divine Love | |
| Director: | Gabriel Mascaro |
| Starring: | Dira Paes |
| Runtime: | 101 minutes |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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.[1] 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.
The film premiered at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals in 2019.[2] [3] The Hollywood Reporter, which considered Divine Love one of the best features at Sundance that year, called it "a very of-the-moment parable",[4] while Variety described the film as "spiritual and sexy".[5] IndieWire saw it as an "exuberant sociopolitical statement".[6] The French magazine Le Polyster found the film "daring, surprising, intelligent, thrilling and, yes, absolutely divine".[7] On Metacritic, Divine Love scored 86/100.