2002 ["Fernando Meirelles"]

City of God

Name: City of God
Genre: [, ", d, r, m
Released: 2002
Rating: 8.6

★ 8.6 IMDb

In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.

Essays and Criticism

On this film

A Matter of Choice by Luciano Trigo, FIPRESCI

In conversation with other films

Currency by Quintin, Cinema Scope

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