Critics reviews

This is a purely sensationalistic cinematic experience that paradoxically encourages reflection and contemplation.

“Aquarela,” Victor Kossakovsky’s eye-popping, sometimes overpowering documentary, begins with a hazardous rescue operation unlike anything you might have seen before.

Aquarela isn’t telling any particular story, nor is it an advocacy doc per se. It’s more of a compendium of astonishing images and sounds, intended to overwhelm.

The film is full of jolting shifts in perspective that interrupt the sensation of being swept away at sea.