It's esoteric and elusive, but still tethered to a kind of cinematic ethnography; sometimes it's direct, sometimes it's far away, a contrast that can just lead to frustration.

| Sep 9, 2021

This observational approach is utterly riveting, and where it goes is simply beautiful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2021

Its gentle humanity and faint tinge of supernatural mystery (which recalls the similarly restful work of Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul) gave me reason enough to stay awake.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 5, 2021

Da-Rin's documentary credentials bring an authenticity that avoids easy exoticisation of indigenous people.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2021

A compelling, richly researched film that builds upon Da-Rin's documentary experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 3, 2021

The Fever is a calm and quiet and subtle film, a little inert perhaps, but deeply engaged with the hidden lives of Brazil's indigenous people. There is poetry in it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 2021

Maya Da-Rin manages to make a shocking film, aesthetically successful.

| Aug 2, 2021

It is to Da-Rin's talent as a filmmaker that her political and ideological intent never overshadow this deceptively simple and astute tale of a sick man yearning for his home, and finally hearing the call of the wild.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 16, 2021

With its recursive structure mirroring Justino's own monotonous days, "The Fever" languidly creates a portrait of a man immobilized by his own inaction.

| Mar 26, 2021

With its soundscape of insects and rainfall, and its keen eye for lived-in interiors and fluorescent-lit urban in-between spaces, The Fever is, minute-by-minute, a compelling experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2021

A slow, still film that journeys from grounded realism into the realm of dreamlike allegory.

| Original Score: B | Mar 22, 2021

An urgent portrait of a kind of life our desperate sprint toward modernity has incorrectly deemed as lesser-than.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2021

Subtly sensorial more than conventionally narrative, "The Fever" inhabits an ethereal plane that centers Indigenous beliefs and cultural practices not as primitive but valid modes of engagement.

| Mar 18, 2021

Régis Myrupu, who won best actor at the Locarno Film Festival, brings a regal presence to Justino.

| Mar 18, 2021

By showing us the world through Justino's searching gaze, Da-Rin gives us an elusive but powerful sense of the limits of our own vision.

| Mar 18, 2021

In the film, Manaus is a place of irreconcilable tension between the lush natural world and the cold, metallic world of industrial modernity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 15, 2021

The direction combines, with patience and fluidity, the mythical and the everyday... a promising fiction debut from Brazilian filmmaker Maya Da-Rin. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 15, 2021

Maybe the most interesting dimension of Justino's story is that the monkeys and man sharing space and language prompted the latter to channel his energy toward healing rather than harm.

| Sep 3, 2020

Clear influences begin to undo a bit of the dark spell [The Fever] has cast, the cribbing a subversion of its very specificity.

| Jul 29, 2020

With subtlety and sensibility, taking advantage of the simplicity and humanity of the actors, the director Maya Da-Rin conceived one of the most convincing debut pieces of Latin American cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 20, 2019