AQUARIUS

By Kleber MENDONCA FILHO

SBS INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR / PROD

Drama - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2016
Competition
Toronto - TIFF 2016
Contemporary World Cinema
Busan - BIFF/APM 2016
World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 145 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Kleber MENDONCA FILHO
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/E8BD-2403-2E6D-5509-FF88-6
    • Producer(s)
    • Saïd BEN SAÏD, Michel MERKT
    • Synopsis
    • 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 will engage in a cold war of sorts with the company, a confrontation which is both mysterious, frightening and nerve wracking. This tension both disturbs Clara and gives her that edge on her daily routine. It also gets her thinking about her loved ones, her past and her future.