2013 · animation · drama · history
Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi1h 14m2013
“Rio 2096 – A Story of Love and Fury” is an animated film that portrays the love between an immortal hero and Janaína, the woman he has been in love with for 600 years. As a backdrop to the romance, the feature highlights four phases of Brazilian history: colonization, slavery, the Military Regime and the future, in 2096, when there will be a war for water.
Our read: Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive animation · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured animation / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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