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Aquarela

2018

Viktor Kossakovsky

Documentary

6.7

88

Documentary Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water.

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] ravishing visual feast (...) [Kossakovsky is] Russia’s most poetic formalist filmmaker at the moment (...) [A] compelling work"	POS
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"This is immersive experiential cinema (...) 'Aquarela' matches sincere, open-eyed curiosity about the wider world to awe-inspiring technical virtuosity"	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"One of the most frightening and persuasive movies I’ve ever seen about the destruction created by climate change. With incredibly cinematic imagery and a succinct narrative"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] is both gorgeous and terrifying (...) Kossakovsky and his fellow camera virtuoso Ben Bernhard capture sights that blur the line between reality and fantasy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Demetrios Matheou Screendaily	"Some of the watery and icy locales appear more otherworldly and intimidating than anything concocted by CGI"	POS
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"[It] is a visual tour de force (...) A sense of slight monotony sometimes creeps in after so many shots of ice, calving glaciers, heaving waves, sea foam, rain, snow, fog, mist, etc. (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Filming at a dazzling 96 frames per second (...) Kossakovsky and Ben Bernhard assemble a stunning, occasionally numbing sensory symphony."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An absorbing and disturbing spectacle (...) It’s a movie on a powerfully ambitious scale. Its subject could hardly be more relevant (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"No lines. No boffins. No statistics or analysis. Just water being, well, water (...) In the face of an actual, urgent and existing climate crisis, however, it feels slightly slack (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"'Aquarela' is reminiscent of Godfrey Reggio’s 'Koyaanisqatsi', in both its size and its scope, and in its use of the aural with the visual, and that can never be a bad thing."	POS

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