Only Good Things [Apenas Coisas Boas] ** (2025, Lucas Drummond, Liev Carlos) – Classic Movie Review 13,822

A young farmer (Lucas Drummond) helps an injured motorcyclist (Liev Carlos) and nurses him back to health, leading to a profound, sexually heated romance, in the 2025 Brazilian film Only Good Things.

Writer/ director Daniel Nolasco’s 2025 Brazilian romantic drama film Only Good Things opens in the lush rural Brazilian countryside in 1984 where lusty Antônio (Lucas Drummond), an isolated, solitary young farmer, helps Marcelo (Liev Carlos), an injured motorcyclist who crashes near his property and nurses him back to health.

Antônio and Marcelo’s love story leads to a profound, sexually heated romance that ends up challenging both men.

Only Good Things is a slow flowing, ambiguous meditation on love and loss, without a conventional plot or a tidy resolution of any kind. It is a film of strong sex and strong sadness, quite well done, maybe very well done, but so depressing, with a tragic event at half way and with a baffling second half that’s likely to alienate its audience. The first half does seem to be going places, so it’s even more disappointing that the second half, set 40 years later, is the places it is going to. It is lovingly made, though, and courageously performed, and told with all the courage of its cerebral convictions. It boldly goes, and must score points for that.

© Derek Winnert 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,822

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