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Joaquim

2017

Marcelo Gomes

Júlio Machado, Nuno Lopes, Welket Bungué, Diogo Dória ...

5.6

56

Drama Eighteenth-century Brazil. There is growing concern in this Portuguese colony that gold mining is in decline. The country is being ruled by corrupt colonial officers. Lieutenant Joaquim has made a name for himself as a hunter of gold smugglers. He has been waiting in vain for the reward which he intends to use to buy the freedom of his lover, a black slave. In order to make the money some other way, he agrees to take part in a dangerous ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"Gomes finds truth in concepts and details, envisioning an antihero’s transformation from unthinking colonialist henchman to revolutionary."	POS
United States	Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Pleasingly gritty if inconclusive biopic"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"There’s a refreshing honesty in 'Joaquim’s attempts to get under the skin of an unschooled, lice-infested revolutionary (...) [but] details like story development and character motivation take a backseat"	NEG

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