Angels might fear to tread on territory such as this — Dostoevsky’s short story “White Nights” has previously formed the inspiration for films from Luschino Visconti, Robert Bresson, and James Gray, among others. But then prolific Brazilian shorts director Leonardo Mouramateus is either no angel, or a particularly fearless one, because his feature debut “Antonio One Two Three” with gleeful mischief, plunges both hands elbow-deep into Dostoevsky’s tale of triangular, unrequited love, and teases and stretches and taffy-pulls it into something new.

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