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Having been recommended to watch this film, I finally got around to it, and realise that the praise is appropriate: "Ci…

Most of the performances here, if not all, are by actors and actresses plucked from the slums that were the basis for t…

Filmed in Rio, and in the very slums that the narrative is staged in, the film provides that little extra semblance of …

The film is violent pretty much from the outset, and whilst it is in Portuguese, it doesn't mean you can't read the pro…

At the end, we're told that the narrative is based on a true story, and having seen what the audience has seen, it is n…