City of God (original title: Cidade de Deus)
Co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Screenplay by Bráulio Mantovani, based on the 1997 novel by Paulo Lins
Starring Alexandres Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge and Alice Braga
Brazil, 2002
For modern film fans, 2002’s City of God is a key entry in Brazilian cinema. Based on Paulo Lins’s 1997 semi-autobiographical crime fiction novel, the film adaptation promotes themes of adulthood, survival and pessimism in one of Rio da Janiero’s favelas. City of God follows young aspiring photographer Rocket (Rodrigues) and his childhood and subsequent adolescence in the Cidade de Deus favela. Set between the end of 1960s’ and the beginning of the 1980s’, it documents the growth of organised crime in the Cidade de Deus.
The consistent theme of pessimism is reinforced by the life of crime that is immediately introduced to the film. Within the first ten minutes,...
Co-directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Screenplay by Bráulio Mantovani, based on the 1997 novel by Paulo Lins
Starring Alexandres Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge and Alice Braga
Brazil, 2002
For modern film fans, 2002’s City of God is a key entry in Brazilian cinema. Based on Paulo Lins’s 1997 semi-autobiographical crime fiction novel, the film adaptation promotes themes of adulthood, survival and pessimism in one of Rio da Janiero’s favelas. City of God follows young aspiring photographer Rocket (Rodrigues) and his childhood and subsequent adolescence in the Cidade de Deus favela. Set between the end of 1960s’ and the beginning of the 1980s’, it documents the growth of organised crime in the Cidade de Deus.
The consistent theme of pessimism is reinforced by the life of crime that is immediately introduced to the film. Within the first ten minutes,...
- 7/17/2014
- by Katie Wong
- SoundOnSight
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