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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 3, 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2021

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

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