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Aquarela
Directed by
Viktor Kossakovsky
PG
2018
90m
Documentary
6.6
87%
32%
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Water and ice are shown around the world, in all of their many powerful forms.
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Cast of Aquarela
Viktor Kossakovsky
Director / Writer
Aimara Reques
Writer / Producer
Sigrid Dyekjær
Producer
Heino Deckert
Producer
Aquarela Ratings & Reviews
hairydemon
June 2, 2025
over use of slomo is a warning to others. thin on idea but pretty
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
A breathtaking and offensive documentary in the vein of Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness.
Elements of Madness
Douglas Davidson
Drawing from the translation of its name, "watercolor," Aquarela features no real narrative as it moves languidly from beginning to end. In this way, Aquarela is an absolutely mesmerizing piece of cinema.
Bowling Green Daily News
Micheal Compton
It's an incredible film to watch unfold, with Kossakovsky's crew capturing some fascinating imagery that is absolutely breathtaking.
Times-Picayune
Mike Scott
A display of singular cinematography, with long, entrancing shots that lend it a mesmerizing quality - and help make it one of the most beautifully shot films of the year.
Your Movies (cleveland.com)
John Urbancich
Nature's sound and fury become the lone reasons to see and maybe embrace it and, even at less than 90 minutes, such relentless imagery feels like a lot of watching.
Austin Chronicle
Richard Whittaker
At every stage, Aquarela is a voyage on the edges of elemental wrath.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
It's a pretty interesting nature documentary as far as it goes. But given its globe-trotting scope and the risky location work involved for the filmmakers, it's a tiny bit strange "Aquarela" goes only so far.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Even at 89 minutes, the film seems too long. Kossakovsky just seems to want us to admire his footage, and that's about it. It becomes monotonous.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Despite these occasional moments of tedium, however, the film is at once chilling and likely to make your blood boil.
Film Comment Magazine
Fatima Naqvi
In this masterful essay film, water in all its forms provides the scale against which human life is to be measured.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Eco-documentary on H20 in the age of climate change - from crumbling icebergs to chaotic hurricanes - is both gorgeous and terrifying. The shape of water, indeed.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
A purely sensationalistic cinematic experience that paradoxically encourages reflection and contemplation.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
No one there, or anywhere else in the film, ever utters the words "global warming," yet the message could not be clearer-we are all of us living on thin ice.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Aquarela" is nothing like what you might be expecting. Yes, it's a meditation on water in a multitude of forms, but as directed by Russia's Victor Kossakovsky it's an unexpectedly unnerving film that's at least as terrifying as it is beautiful.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The movie, like the elemental forces we continue to exacerbate, never explains itself. Surrender to it, though, and a narrative - of spectacle, conflict and retaliation - will eventually become clear.
AV Club
Noel Murray
When the Apocalyptica music is cranked up high, and the screen's awash in dazzlingly sharp, hypnotically swirling images of cresting waves, viewers could certainly take a moment to contemplate the importance of water to our global ecosystem.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
At heart, Aquarela is a war film: a cacophonous survey of the global battle between man and water.
RogerEbert.com
Nick Allen
One of the most frightening and persuasive movies I've ever seen about the destruction created by climate change.
Variety
Guy Lodge
A feast of HD imagery so crisp as to be almost disorienting, this is immersive experiential cinema with no firm storytelling trajectory, though viewers can read what environmental warnings they may into its rushing spectacle.
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