A mere forty-eight years into her acting career, Sonia Braga was remarkable in the role of Clara, a stoic cancer survivor struggling to keep developers from removing her from her family home.  Aquarius should have been Brazil’s official submission to the 2017 Oscars Best Foreign Film category, but the core of it’s story touched a nerve at the Ministry of Culture. Director Kleber Mendonca Filho’s political views were fiercely attacked in social media by a critic (Marcos Petrucelli) on the selection committee, leading to the resignation of several other members of the committee, and the withdrawl of films by other directors in protest of local government interference in the selection process in this and the previous two years’ competitions. Que escandalo! Read more

I had been wanting to show this for some time, and this week the stars aligned perfectly. We had Brazilians in the house, and Professor Moleski got to excercise his Portuguese!

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