2013 · documentary
City of God: 10 Years Later
Directed by Cavi Borges, Luciano Vidigal1h 9m2013
City of God – 10 Years Later investigates what happened to the actors who took part in the award-winning film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. This documentary shows what City of God’s worldwide success meant to their lives. Were the actors prepared for the film’s success? Did the social background of some of them prove stronger than the opportunity that came their way?
Our read: City of God: 10 Years Later (2013) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded documentary entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- gentle
- intimate
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How City of God feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want to see what happened to the real people behind a famous favela film.”
Skip it tonight — You expect the actors to have all become stars or dislike downbeat reality.
Eight films that feel like this one.
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