Aquarius
Aquarius
Regie:
Kleber Mendonça FilhoScenario:
Kleber Mendonça FilhoCamera:
Pedro SoteroActeurs:
Sônia Braga, Irandhir Santos, Humberto Carrão, Maeve Jinkings, Julia Bernat, Carla Ribas, Zoraide Coleto, Arly Arnaud, Thaia Perez, Amanda Gabriel (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Clara, een bejaarde weduwe en gepensioneerde muziekcriticus, woont in Aquarius, een origineel twee verdiepingen tellend appartementengebouw uit de jaren 1940 in Recife in Brazilië. Clara komt uit een rijk en traditioneel gezin en belooft in het appartement te blijven wonen tot haar dood. Dit besluit frustreert een bedrijf dat alle naburige appartementen heeft verworven en het perceel wil gebruiken voor hun eigen doeleinden. Clara belandt in een koude oorlog met het bedrijf en weigert haar positie op te geven. (Contact Film)
(meer)Recensie (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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