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    Aquarela

    Jul 03, 2019 3 minutes
    BY FATIMA NAQVI

    Director: Victor Kossakovsky

    Country/Distributor: UK/Germany/Denmark/USA, Sony Pictures Classics

    Opening: August 16

    IN VICTOR KOSSAKOVSKY’S MASTERFUL essay film , water in all its forms provides the scale against which human life is to be measured. We watch it metamorphose from ice to liquid, snow to rain to mist. In the beginning, there are rocky coasts, barren islands, and sheltering inlets from which to espy the surrounding waters. It is from an outcropping that we first see the vast expanse of Lake Baikal, the world’s most ancient

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