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March 29: Cidade de Deus/City of God (Brazil 2001, USA 2003)

Tuesday, March 29, 5:00pm

Student Union Movie Theater, UNC Charlotte Main Campus

Cidade de Deus/City of God

Director Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Brazil 2001/USA 2003, 135 min

Sponsors: Movie Theater Programming Grant (Student Union) / Portuguese Club

Introduction by Janine Rangel, Paula Andrade, Portuguese Instructors, and Tatiana de Paula, Fulbright FLTA, UNC Charlotte. Discussion will follow screening.

The streets of the world’s most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro’s City of God, are a place where combat photographers fear to tread, police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20. In the midst of the oppressive crime and violence, a young boy will grow up to discover that he can view the harsh realities of his surroundings with an artistic eye. In the face of impossible odds, his brave ambition to become a professional photographer becomes a window into his world and ultimately his way out.

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Reviews:

“City of God” churns with furious energy as it plunges into the story of the slum gangs of Rio de Janeiro. Breathtaking and terrifying, urgently involved with its characters, it announces a new director of great gifts and passions: Fernando Meirelles. Remember the name. The film has been compared with Scorsese’s “GoodFellas,” and it deserves the comparison. Scorsese’s film began with a narrator who said that for as long as he could remember he wanted to be a gangster. The narrator of this film seems to have had no other choice.” –Roger Ebert, January 24, 2003 

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