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Old 11-12-2005, 03:05 PM  
MattO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Penthouse_mike
The camera work is kind of whiz-bang, but if City of God wasn't in Portugese
it wouldn't be remarkable at all.

Hector Babenco makes the best Brazilian movies. Pixote is a better favela story by far. It is hard to find- it costs about $100 on eBay- but it is worth it.
That's what I liked about City of Men, that it gets more into stories in the favelas and doesn't just center so much on the crime story.
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