DIR. Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles
YEAR. 2002
COUNTRY. Brazil
RUN-TIME. 130 mins
RATING. 18
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7.00PM
Film 7.30PM
Original title Cicade de Deus, City of God is the story of a group of young people living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and the separate paths they take through life against the backdrop of a circumscribed and unforgiving setting. Loosely based on real events, and starring amateur actors, many of whom were from favelas themselves, the film follows both the organised crime of the 1960s to the 1980s in Brazil, and the myriad coming of age tales of the canny (in some aspects) group.
“Yes, City of God tells a story about the hopeless, desperate denizens of a drug- and violence-riddled slum. But tells a story, and does so with a narrative panache that owes more to Scorsese or Tarantino than to any well-meaning documentarian.”
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