Aquarius
Aquarius
Rendező:
Kleber Mendonça FilhoForgatókönyvíró:
Kleber Mendonça FilhoOperatőr:
Pedro SoteroSzereplők:
Sônia Braga, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão, Maeve Jinkings, Julia Bernat, Carla Ribas, Zoraide Coleto, Arly Arnaud, Thaia Perez, Amanda Gabriel (több)Tartalmak(1)
Clara lives in the Aquarius building, the last classic construction in a renowned avenue in the coast city of Recife. She is a retired journalist, widow with adult children and she is the owner of an apartment full of cds and books. Clara will have to face a construction company that has other plans for her home: they want to demolish the Aquarius in order to open a new inmobiliary complex. (Interior XIII)
(több)Recenziók (2)
An unusual reflection on memories, space, time, rebellion against establishment and unrelenting sensuality. Unlike the debut, Aquarius is not as consistent in every respect; nevertheless, its atmosphere, the construction of the shots and the main character played by the charismatic Sonia Braga are enchanting. The silent poetry of a doomed house and a woman sentenced to solitude, at the same time a hidden political statement (and when one looks at IMDb, one learns that Filho irritated the ruling Brazilian party not only with his film, but also with a protest gesture on the Cannes red carpet). [Cannes 2016]
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51st KVIFF - I feel that this film doesn’t provide a more in-depth image of the relationship of Clara with that flat, and as a result, for most of it, instead of understanding her motivations and sympathising with her efforts to preserve the place where she has lived all her life (which would be a relevant motif, if well developed), she ends up looking like a stuck-up neomarxist ecowarrior, pitted against the evil developers under the banner of “nothing will be built here simply because I don’t want it”. Perhaps a deeper knowledge of the realities of Brazil could help.
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