This handyman’s work is not recommended for children under 18.
A simple proposition: a fictionalized version of the director confuses an innocent phrase from a hired handyman with a sexual advance. Once the mix-up is cleared up, the tension still remains. Faced with this, the Handyman proposes a mutually beneficial solution: he agrees to show his naked body to the filmmaker if, in return, the filmmaker records him in a music video for his favorite song. The bulk of the film ends up being this video. In a state that Leal briefly describes as “narrative (?)”, through this metatextual and self-fictional framework, the film appropriates the language of the music video to delve into a delirious and humorous exploration of desire. The desire of the individual, of the camera, and the reconciliation of both. Amidst overblown neon lights and increasingly gratuitous ways of framing genitals, the film becomes a filtration of fantasy and desire through an already existing language, creating a suspended dream capable of acknowledging its own absurdity. (Vasco Muralha)
