Aquarius (2016)
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
Clara, a vibrant former music critic and widow with flowing tresses is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with as she thwarts the builders plans to kick her out of the apartment.
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Aquarius showed exactly what your neighbors get up to behind closed doors…
His films Aquarius (2016) and Bacurau (2019) unveil themselves like fairy tales, mythologies, or even dark and sinister Aesop’s fables.
…much like Aquarius, this is a film deferential to the preciousness of belonging, of rooting oneself in a home that goes beyond the proverbial…
Kleber Mendonça Filho, director brasilero de películas como «Aquarius» (2016), «Bacurau» (2019) y el documental «Retratos Fantasmas» (2023), vuelve al ruedo con «El Agente Secreto»…
The director of Neighboring Sounds (2012), Aquarius (2016), and Bacurau (2019) had already left a strong impression on me…
…through the drama Aquarius (2016) and the thriller Bacurau (2019), and now to this…
This is a far cry from Filho’s previous offerings, Neighboring Sounds (2012) and the Braga led Aquarius (2016), stepping out of comfort zones into more experimental terrain.
Review: This surreal, ultra-idiosyncratic follow up by Kleber Mendonça Filho (and Juliano Dornelles) to his exceptional Aquarius , sees something of his signature languorous style remain and it does function on some level as another tribute to traditional Brazilian values outsmarting the forces of imperialism and capitalism.
La fotografía despiadada y postapocalíptica de Pedro Sotero (que también fotografió la genial Aquarius de Mendonça Filho).
In this same communal spirit, Juliano Dornelles—who worked as a production designer on Kleber Mendonça Filho’s films Aquarius and Neighboring Sounds —is promoted to co-director alongside his collaborator for Bacurau.
His debut, Neighboring Sounds, is a remarkably lived-in tapestry of a working-class neighbourhood in the grips of a heatwave, while Aquarius is a decade-spanning rumination on gentrification and female resilience.
And a few years from Aquarius, Filho has taken a surprising new direction: a gutsy, audacious quasi-western that shares the same defiant tone but replaces council spats with blood splats.
Movies from 1976’s Helter Skelter to 2015’s Manson Family Vacation and TV shows like NBC’s Aquarius and FX’s American Horror Story: Cult have replayed the story and its cultural legacy, either literally or as a template for stories about cults and killings.