Sonia Braga as Clara in Aquarius. Photo credit: Victor Jucá / CinemaScópio © 2016
Sonia Braga is marvelous as Clara, an iron-willed 65-year-old retired music critic who refuses to be forced out of her seaside condo by a developer planning to replace her aging building with a luxury high-rise, in the Brazilian drama Aquarius.
Aquarius is the name of the apartment building in Recife, Brazil, where Clara lives, as well as director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s drama. The developer plans to demolish the iconic mid-century Aquarius and replace it with a high-priced luxury condo building, as has been done other older buildings in this prime beachfront location. The company has bought all the other units in the building and only Clara now remains.
Braga looks, by turns, weathered, strong, vulnerable and still sexy, as this fierce, complicated woman. Director Filho gives Braga the space to round out this multilayered character, creating a moving,...
Sonia Braga is marvelous as Clara, an iron-willed 65-year-old retired music critic who refuses to be forced out of her seaside condo by a developer planning to replace her aging building with a luxury high-rise, in the Brazilian drama Aquarius.
Aquarius is the name of the apartment building in Recife, Brazil, where Clara lives, as well as director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s drama. The developer plans to demolish the iconic mid-century Aquarius and replace it with a high-priced luxury condo building, as has been done other older buildings in this prime beachfront location. The company has bought all the other units in the building and only Clara now remains.
Braga looks, by turns, weathered, strong, vulnerable and still sexy, as this fierce, complicated woman. Director Filho gives Braga the space to round out this multilayered character, creating a moving,...
- 10/28/2016
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Stars: Ana Paula Redding, David Landry, Lillian Pennypacker, Michael St. Michaels, Nancy Wolfe | Written and Directed by Jason Bognacki
There’s a joke in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, the under-seen but superlative comedy about the making of a fictional eighties horror programme, that is too good not to repeat at any given opportunity. In it, the show’s producer, played by Richard Ayoade, claims that due to episodes running far too short, any scene without dialogue was considered for slow motion. Given its own brief running time of just eighty minutes and its predilection for the special effect, one wonders if Mark of the Witch was produced under a similar ethos.
Mark of the Witch portrays Jordyn (Ana Paula Redding), a young woman who keeps having weird and wacky experiences of a not entirely pleasant nature. Turns out, she’s being harassed/possessed by a demonic presence. There’s not...
There’s a joke in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, the under-seen but superlative comedy about the making of a fictional eighties horror programme, that is too good not to repeat at any given opportunity. In it, the show’s producer, played by Richard Ayoade, claims that due to episodes running far too short, any scene without dialogue was considered for slow motion. Given its own brief running time of just eighty minutes and its predilection for the special effect, one wonders if Mark of the Witch was produced under a similar ethos.
Mark of the Witch portrays Jordyn (Ana Paula Redding), a young woman who keeps having weird and wacky experiences of a not entirely pleasant nature. Turns out, she’s being harassed/possessed by a demonic presence. There’s not...
- 1/20/2016
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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