WEDNESDAY ' April 23, 2008 21:00 h
A film by Fernando Meirelles . With Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele , Seu Jorge, Leandro Firmino by Hora, Alice Braga . Genre Drama , color, 130 minutes. - Production Brazil, France, USA 2001.
From the novel City of God (1997) by Paulo Lins, adapted by Braulio Mantovani (aiutoregista with Katia Lund) and produced by Walter Salles (Central do Brasil). Set in the late '60s and early '80s in a satellite city of Rio De Janeiro (about ten million inhabitants with suburbs), the story is fictional and a report focused on youth crime, on a desperate social and ethical drift through the proliferation of gangs, robberies, drug sales. Divided into three chapters, is a hallucinatory tale ensemble in which all the main characters kill and end up shot, if you remove Buscapé, a boy who, with a minimum of self-consciousness, he manages to escape his destiny, and photojournalist becomes: is the glue as a witness / narrator who takes no part in the action, but suffers. The result of a script rewritten 12 times and a preproduction 8 months for the selection and training of 110 boys and adult amateurs movie in 9 weeks by Cesar Charlone in 16 mm, 35 mm and video, produced in 5 months post-production with a frantic editing that is affected by previous experience time director F. Meirelles (1955) in experimental cinema and advertising. In its extreme violence is a film that drags the viewer on the edge of the abyss of the bottomless evil of metaphysical dimensions. 
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