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City of God
Directed by
Fernando Meirelles
2001
2h 10m
R
Drama
,
Crime
8.6
91%
97%
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In the slums of Rio, two kids' paths diverge as one struggles to become a photographer and the other a kingpin.
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Cast of City of God
Alexandre Rodrigues
Buscapé
Leandro Firmino
Zé Pequeno
Phellipe Haagensen
Bené
Seu Jorge
Mané Galinha
Jonathan Haagensen
Cabeleira
Matheus Nachtergaele
Sandro Cenoura
Luis Otávio
Buscapé Criança
Douglas Silva
Dadinho
Michel Gomes
Bené Criança - Young Benny
Jefechander Suplino
Alicate
Alice Braga
Angélica
Roberta Rodrigues
Berenice
Darlan Cunha
Filé-com-Fritas
Thiago Martins
Lampião
Gero Camilo
Paraíba - Shorty
Daniel Zettel
Thiago - Tiago
Charles Paraventi
Tio Sam - Uncle Sam
Dani Ornellas
Vizinha do Paraíba - Shorty's Neighbor
Micael Borges
Caixa Baixa - Runts
Lúcio Andrey
Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Marcelo Mello Jr.
Bando Zé Pequeno - Li'l Zé's Gang
Babu Santana
Grande
Mary Sheila
Mulher do Neguinho
Paulo Lins
Pastor da Igreja
Olivia Araújo
Recepcionista do Motel
Graziella Moretto
Marina Cintra
Tulé Peak
Newspaper Employee (uncredited)
Kikito Junqueira
Otávio
Renato de Souza
Marreco
Edson Oliveira
Barbantinho Adulto - Older Stringy
Kiko Marques
Cabeção - Melonhead
Emerson Gomes
Barbantinho - Stringy
Ana Felipe
Jornalista
City of God Reviews
Houston Chronicle
Eric Harrison
An incredibly assured, compelling and often sardonically funny piece of filmmaking.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
Hard to watch but even harder to tear your eyes away from.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Robert Denerstein
Rivets attention and rattles the conscience.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
Difficult to watch but hard to look away from.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Meirelles takes us to a real-life deathtrap and then proceeds to make us feel twice as alive for the time we spend there.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
Traffic was brilliant fiction, but City of God proves that true stories often pack the most punch.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A marvelous achievement that refuses to avert its gaze from the poetry and the insane savagery of the hopeless.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Powerful, but only for 17 and up.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Watching the humanity in the city slowly crumble as poverty and degradation slowly take over, I couldn't shake the growing lump in my stomach as it hardened into a dry, cold clump.
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Adam Nayman
It's a conspicuously stylish attention-getter that heralds the discovery of a major directorial talent.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
A blood-spattered, non-stop ride as much into the life of a 'favela' (squatter settlement) as it is into the lives of the youths who inhabit it.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
I came away from this film impressed by its narrative control but unmoved by anything it had to say.
Variety
David Rooney
City of God delivers a bruising, visceral experience of the vicious spiral of violence that draws kids into a life of crime, brutality and murder as the only avenue open to them.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
The living conditions it projects are as horrendous as I had feared, but the movie is surprisingly easy to take as a rollicking homicidal entertainment.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Meirelles has created one of the most startling, grittily brilliant films in recent years.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
An extraordinary film, but definitely not for the weak of stomach.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
If one of the moral responsibilities of the movies is to put you in places where you'd never go and live lives you'd never live, then City of God is great moviemaking.
San Jose Mercury News
Glenn Lovell
A grim, outrageous, blisteringly effective underworld thriller destined to become a classic of its kind.
San Francisco Chronicle
Octavio Roca
Long and difficult to watch, but it is never dull.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A shocking, deeply disturbing film made with great passion.
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