City Of God
(Cidade De Deus)
135 minutes,
Brazil (2002), 18
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(4.9 / 218 votes)
(4.9 / 218 votes)
Impressive portrayal of the cycle of violence among the poor, young criminals in the slums of Rio De Janeiro. Based in reality, it features the all-out gang war that took place in the early 1980s and was documented in the renowned source novel of the same name
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City Of God: Fans of the cinema of Walter Salles (Central Station) will have had a cinematic initiation into the reality of Brazil's poor communities. But where only half of the action in Midnight, the 1998 film co-directed by Salles, took viewers into the favelas (slums) of Rio De Janeiro, City Of God (which Salles co-produced) never leaves them...
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