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Lula, the Son of Brazil
Directed by
Fábio Barreto
,
Marcelo Santiago
Not Rated
2010
2h 10m
Drama
,
Biography
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4.5
26%
28%
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The true story of a working-class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one of the most influential politicians in Brazil's history.
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Cast of Lula, the Son of Brazil
Rui Ricardo Diaz
Lula
Glória Pires
Dona Lindu
Cleo
Lurdes
Juliana Baroni
Marisa Letícia
Milhem Cortaz
Aristides
Lucélia Santos
Professora
Antônio Pitanga
Seu Cristóvão
Celso Frateschi
Seu Álvaro
Marcos Cesana
Cláudio Feitosa
Sóstenes Vidal
Ziza
Antonio Saboia
Vavá
Clayton Mariano
Lambari
Eduardo Acaiabe
Geraldão
Marat Descartes
Arnaldo
Ney Piacentini
Dr. Miguel
Felipe Falanga
Lula (7 anos)
Guillerme Tortólio
Lula (15 anos)
Luccas Papp
Lambari (15 anos)
Vanessa Bizzarro
Lurdes (13 anos)
Maicon Gouveia
Jaime
Fernando Alves Pinto
Jornalista
Rayana Carvalho
Dona Mocinha
Jones Melo
Tosinho
Mariah Teixeira
Marinete
Fernanda Laranjeira
Tiana
Pascoal da Conceição
Radialista
Fábio Barreto
Director
Marcelo Santiago
Director
Fernando Bonassi
Writer
Denise Paraná
Writer
Daniel Tendler
Writer
Paula Barreto
Producer
Rômulo Marinho Jr.
Producer
Lula, the Son of Brazil Ratings & Reviews
Battleship Pretension
Jack Fleischer
Responsible world citizens should probably know the story of Lula, but when it comes down to it, it doesn't feel like Lula ever truly gives us insight into Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Battleship Pretension
David Bax
Essentially, what Barreto engages in here is mythmaking.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
For a film that clearly loves its subject so much, it's lack of fire is both curious and unfortunate.
Easy Reader (California)
Neely Swanson
One can only hope that this isn't the best that Brazil has to offer cinematically.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Well-acted and mildly engaging, but too much melodrama and not enough compelling insight.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
Glossing over such inconvenient facts as out-of-wedlock fatherhood, this unabashed encomium skimps on complexity and insight in the name of veneration.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
For most persons outside of Brazil, this will be a historically significant film with enough excitement to fill almost every minute of the 130-minute run time.
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Louis Proyect
A resolutely apolitical biopic inspired more by "Coal Miner's Daughter" than the class struggle in Brazil. Despite this, it is still worth seeing for its commitment to the cause of the 99% in Brazil.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A biopicture about the formative early years of one of Brazil's most famous presidents whose muse and advocate was his beloved mother.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
Lula, Son of Brazil is proof that even charismatic political figures, in this case, Brazil's former president, Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, can be felled by the requirements of the standard biopic genre.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
Only half-way through, the film loses momentum. Emotion gives way to stagey conventional pseudo-populism, with the human disappeared.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
With its $5 million budget, "Lula'' is said to be Brazil's most expensive movie yet. It's a shame the money wasn't better spent.
Film-Forward.com
Kent Turner
But da Silva comes across as such a nice and sensible guy that you're likely to crave the ego-driven rants or the paranoia running rampant in other political biopics
NPR
Ella Taylor
Long on hero worship and woefully short on insight, Lula: Son of Brazil oozes good intentions, but it wouldn't look out of place in a retrospective of early Soviet workerist cinema.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Forget Son of Brazil: This syrupy origin story/biopic on the nation's beloved reformist president, whose second term ended in 2010, should be titled Mama's Boy.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
This insipidly inspirational biopic of the two-term Brazilian president is a safe, bourgeois vision of proletarian struggle.
The Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Barreto's direction doesn't avoid the flatness of many TV biographies, and the film drags on too long to captivate audiences who do not revere Lula as their national hero.
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