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City Of God (Cidade De Deus)
Product Description
Like cinematic dynamite, City of God lights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion. The titular favela is home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's ambitious 20-year time frame, into cut-throat killers, drug lords and feral survivors. In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a non-professional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul. With enough visual vitality and provocative substance to spark heated debate (and box-office gold) in Brazil, codirectors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund tackle their subject head on, creating a portrait of youthful anarchy so appalling--and so authentically immediate--that City of God prompted reforms in socioeconomic policy. It's a bracing feat of stylistic audacity, borrowing from a dozen other films to form its own unique identity. You'll flinch, but you can't look away. --Jeff Shannon
Special Features
- 'News From A Private War' featurette
- Interactive menu
- Scene access DVD
Technical Information:
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen Anamorphic
- Language: Portuguese
- Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired
- Running Time: 2 hours and 15 minutes approx. *
- Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Key Benefits
Customer Rating
| Language | Portuguese |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Media Type | DVD |
| Product Alert Text | No |
| Offer Text | No |
| Film Genre | Drama |
| Classification | 15 |
| Subtitles | English, English for the hearing impaired |
| Run Time (Mins) | 135 minutes |
| Region | Region 2 |
| Number of disks | 1 |
| DVD Format | PAL |