Once There Was Brasília review - sci-fi odyssey into Brazil's murky politics

An intergalactic refugee travels through time to modern-day Brazil in an eerie tale that has real-life corruption at its heart Brazilian director Adirley Queirós here cobbles together something comparable, though far more lo-fi, to Wong Kar-wai's 2046: a haunted, backwards-looking sci-fi assembled from textures of the past, which encourages you to pick through the wreckage of political ideology it strews in its wake. Wellington Abreu plays WA4, a Mad Max-style refugee from outer space who, as p...