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- Fernando Meirelles' City of God is a sweeping tale of how crime affects the poor population of Rio de Janeiro. Though the narrative skips around in time, the main focus is on Cabeleira who formed a gang called the Tender Trio. He and his best friend, Bené (Phelipe Haagensen), become crime lords over the course of a decade.
Jan 24, 2003 · Powered by JustWatch. "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.
City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic action crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund. Bráulio Mantovani's script is adapted from the 1997 novel of the same name written by Paulo Lins, but the plot is also loosely based on real events.
- $30.6 million
- Antônio Pinto, Ed Cortês
- $3.3 million
- Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Maurício Andrade Ramos
City of God is a Brazilian crime drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, released in 20 Based on real events that took place in the 1960s and 1970s in the impoverished neighborhood of the same name in Rio de Janeiro, the film tells the story of two young men, Rocket and Li’l Zé, as they navigate their way through the violent an...
Aug 27, 2003 · Interview: Fernando Meirelles on the Making of. City of God. Meirelles spoke with to Slant about how City of God has taken on a life of its own as a stirring work of political activism. “We were far from the picture-perfect postcard image of Rio de Janeiro,” says Rocket, the ray of hope at the heart of director Fernando Meirelles’s City ...
Jan 3, 2003 · Director Fernando Meirelles’s City of God, co-produced under the aegis of Walter Salles, has something similar, but invests his images with more overtly mythic qualities, irresistibly...
Jun 22, 2004 · By employing a narrator who is innocent enough to have our empathy but jaded enough to take the accumulation of young bodies in stride, Meirelles brings us fully into the film's moral universe, a...
Jul 14, 2008 · Spanning more than a decade, City Of God is narrated by the youthful Rocket (Alex Rodrigues), a budding photojournalist who shows promise of moving beyond this heart of darkness when his photographs of Li’l Zé (Leandro Firmino), a gangster with a dark, dark soul, are published in a Rio jornal in the last third of the film.
