LSC Event Descriptions

October 11 & 12, 2003

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Rated R
130 minutes

City of God (2002)
October 11, 2003 at 7:00 and 10:00pm in 26-100 and
October 12, 2003 at 10:00pm in 26-100.

"Sometimes a movie comes along that just floors you, its images burn so deeply. 'City of God' is such a film."
      -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Read this review.

"'City of God' is a potent and unexpected mixture of authenticity and flash."
      -- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times. Read this review.

"'Cidade de Deus' é o filme certo no momento certo."
      -- Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena. Read this review.

Come see the only Brazilian movie in the IMDB top 100 movies of all time!

This movie explores one of the darkest places and times in Brazil's recent history. Beginning in the late 1960's, in a housing project ironically nicknamed the City of God, two young men, condemned to the violence of the mean streets of Rio De Janiero, choose vastly different paths. They mature through the 1980's, as one becomes a drug dealer, powerful but always in danger, while the other, intelligent and too small to fight, finds his calling as a photographer, documenting the vignettes which describe so accurately the lives of those wrapped in this world of drugs and crime. Tragic, truthful, and unforgettable, this film honestly depicts devastating violence and the souls underneath.

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