(City Of God)
2002

March 26, 2003
Camera 7
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
130 minutes

Fantastic, though overly violent, fact-based story about a section of slums outside the beautiful beach towns of Brazil. Kids learn to kill at a shockingly early age. It was fast-paced and colorful and the narrator was a kid trying to stay on the straight and narrow. Very, very well done.

8.5 Critical Consensus