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City Of God
City of God is based on a true story that takes place in the 60';s where in the slums of Rio De Janeiro two boys growing up in the neighborhood take on different paths in life: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
1953, Alto Garças, Mato Grosso, Brazil
15 May 1972, Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
December 22, 2010
Powerful, but only for 17 and up.December 31, 2009
Brazillian director Mereilles' splashy feature debut, a dynamically exciting portrait of Rio's violent gangs, immediately established himsef as an international talent to watch, and the Oscar nods only reaffirmed that status.March 11, 2004
The living conditions it projects are as horrendous as I had feared, but the movie is surprisingly easy to take as a rollicking homicidal entertainment.November 12, 2008
The visceral and artistic excitement remains surface-bound.November 08, 2011
Another passionate piece of Latin American filmmaking, which documents a tragic period in Rio's history and highlights the horrors of life in poverty-line communities. Technically a remarkable filmmaking achievement too.June 12, 2009
Fernando Meirelles' Brazilian slum epic is a profound, stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden lives for the camera.June 17, 2009
City of God delivers a bruising, visceral experience of the vicious spiral of violence that draws kids into a life of crime, brutality and murder as the only avenue open to them.September 25, 2010
Each chapter is endowed with powerful, uncompromising, beguiling and, sometimes, deceptive momentum. What seem like innocuous turns become so critical to the narrative that they tie into the ruthless idea at hand: You never see the bullet that kills you.March 20, 2003
Hard to watch but even harder to tear your eyes away from.June 24, 2006
The performances, many from non-pros, are terrific.November 08, 2011
I came away from this film impressed by its narrative control but unmoved by anything it had to say.May 19, 2004
Difficult to watch but hard to look away from.