FROME Film Club presents Aquarius (Cert 18) by the Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho on Wednesday 8th November at the Merlin Theatre at 8pm.
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
New members welcome. Membership fee £30. Tickets transferable so you can pass them on to family and friends if you can’t attend a film. For details of the eight remaining films and how to join, please visit the website http://fromefilm.co.uk/ index.html.
Non-member tickets £6.50 from the theatre box office.
