A colorful and telling canvas about slum life in Rio de Janeiro, City of God (Cidade de Deus) has wasted little time in becoming an authentic classic of Brazilian cinema. The film admits numerous young characters, most of them distributed among different gangs over time, and a convoluted plot admitting elements of drug dealing, vicious […]
Daily Archives: November 28, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Sandro do Nascimento never met his father. When he was six, robbers stabbed his […]
The following is one of the entries from my list of the 100 greatest films (through 2006) from Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis According to Senegalese filmmaker Mansour Sora Wade, Ndeysaan reflects his position that “belief [in […]
Adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel, Mira Nair’s The Namesake is further proof that the maker of Salaam Bombay! (1988) and Monsoon Wedding (2002) has nothing of value to contribute to cinema. Poorly acted, and eerily populated by ugly guys and pretty gals, a contrived tearjerker is what Nair serves up. For all its insistence to […]
Dennis Grunes 