Frome Film Club: Aquarius

Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil 2016, 146 minutes, Cert 18

In this complex and immensely satisfying drama, retired music critic Clara (a tour-de-force performance from Sonia Braga) is the last remaining resident in a beachfront apartment block in upmarket Recife. She defiantly refuses to capitulate to developers who, underestimating her ferocious persistence, use ever more menacing methods to get her to sell. A glorious celebration of female independence and tenacity and portrait of a spirited, intelligent and sensuous woman living life to the full.

“Densely observed, scrupulously realised, and with a wonderful lead performance … there’s an expansiveness to this film’s intelligence” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Tickets £6.50 for non-members