The Girl From Recife Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic, was born into a wealthy and traditional family in Recife, Brazil. She is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the upper-class, seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighbouring apartments have already been acquired by a company which has other plans for that plot. Clara has pledged to only leave her place upon her death, and will engage in a cold war of sorts with the company, a confrontation which is both mysterious, frightening and... nerve wracking. This tension both disturbs Clara and gives her that edge on her daily routine. It also gets her thinking about her loved ones, her past and her future. Sonia Braga delivers a tour-de-force performance as Dona Clara in Kleber Mendonça Filho's follow up to his audacious 2012 debut, Neighbouring Sounds, where, once again, the Brazilian film critic, turned director, examines human life in urban spaces in his home town of Recife. Clara's eclectic collection of LP's and her vintage French 3-sheet poster of Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, the latter item belonging to the director, will delight lovers of packaged media and memorabilia, items that Clara herself calls 'special objects'. [show more]
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Drama written and directed by Kleber Mendonca Filho. The film follows Clara (Sonia Braga), a 65-year-old widow and retired music critic living in the Aquarius apartment buildings in the Brazilian city of Recife. With local property developers looking to buy her apartment back from her as part of their plans to redevelop the old building, Clara stands firm and refuses to sell up. Not willing to take no for an answer, chief designer Diego (Humberto Carrao) leads the other developers as they continually harass Clara in an attempt to force her out, causing her to further harden her stance and consider taking matters into her own hands.
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