Within this simple scenario, Mendonça and the titanic Sonia Braga gradually sculpt an image of an entire life, inside and out, and while speaking specifically to contemporary Brazilian politics they also happen to touch upon nearly every issue that became a talking point of the 2016 U.S. election—entrenched racial and class divides, gender inequality, corporate greed. Aquarius is gripping exhilarating, and exquisitely rendered, and its message was loud and clear even before it resonated anew.
Michael Koresky
Ocak 3, 2017