- dir. Katia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
- Year. 2002
- country. Brazil
- run-time. 124 mins
- rating. 18
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 19:30 - Film 20:00
Our Latin American Cinema season continues this month with:
CITY OF GOD
Welcome to the world's most notorious slum: Rio de Janeiro's City of God. A place where combat photographers fear to tread, where police rarely go and residents are lucky if they live to the age of 20.
This is the true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and ultimately may be his way out.
“A dynamic masterpiece in any language.”— EMPIRE MAGAZINE
“The performances, many from non-pros, are terrific.”
“It should be considered required viewing, I think, by anyone who seeks to understand how violence begets violence.”
“A profound, stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden lives for the camera.”
