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Aquarius

2016

Kleber Mendonça Filho

Sônia Braga, Irandhir Santos, Maeve Jinkings, Julia Bernat ...

6.8

2,822

Drama

Drama

Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death, and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"'Aquarius' will make you want to move to Brazil (...) The film’s lucid sense of place and space (...) is one of the film’s most generous pleasures (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"
		Jay Weissberg Variety	" incomparable Sonia Braga (...) 'Aquarius' is a character study as well as a shrewd meditation on the needless transience of place and the way physical space elides with our identity"
		Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"This endearing old-age drama works best as an earnest and colorful character study, even if it doesn't really break any new cinematic ground"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Rich and mysterious (...) a densely observed and superbly acted portrait of a woman of a certain age (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Aquarius' is a marvelous and surprising act of portraiture, a long, unhurried encounter with a single, complicated person."
		David Parkinson Empire	"Wonderfully evocative of time and place, this considered assault on Brazil’s economic and ethical crises revolves around a majestic performance by Sonia Braga (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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