WHAT WE’RE WATCHING: JM Coetzee’s biblical trilogy comes to screen in daring cinematic saga
Tiago Guedes’s Aquí ambitiously adapts Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy into an on-screen saga that’s rich in biblical allusion and philosophical enquiry but occasionally losing narrative momentum.
By Kristen HardingSouth Africa
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Tiago Guedes’s Aquí ambitiously adapts Coetzee’s Jesus trilogy into an on-screen saga that’s rich in biblical allusion and philosophical enquiry but occasionally losing narrative momentum.
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- 25 words · 1 min read
- Published
- September 21, 2026
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- Kristen Harding
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- Daily Maverick