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Recommended Carandiru

Hector Babenco, 2003

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Set in what was Brazil’s most notorious prison, Carandiru serves its time usefully and then goes out with a big bang and a nifty samba. Somewhere between high-end soap opera and Oz, Carandiru casts Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as a doctor overhearing the funny, tragic and always unpredictable tall tales his patients spin out for him during surgery hours. Despite the forbidding location – where overcrowded cells come as standard and the threat of violence jostles for airspace with tuberculosis germs – the criminals are mostly portrayed as loveable rogues and Robin Hoods, engaging in an extension of the populist mischief Babenco favours. But the last half-hour is bravura filmmaking, more than worth the considered build-up, in which the film’s mediators vanish, the prisoners take up the story themselves, the riot squad storms in, and all hell breaks loose.

Mike McCahill on 1st July 2004

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DVD Extras
  • Director's commentary
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  • The Making-of
  • Historical Footage.
Film Details

Director

Hector Babenco

Year

2003

Country

South America

Cast

Luis Carlos Vasconcelos

Technical Details

Certificate

15

Length

149 mins

Label

COL-T

Format

DVD Colour

Region

2

Aspect

1.85:1 Anamorphic widescreen

Cat No

CDR34851

Main Language

Portuguese

Subtitles

English, English HoH, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

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