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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0616892590422
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Label: Film Movement
Manufacturer: Film Movement
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Film Movement
Release Date: August 08, 2007
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 24879
Studio: Film Movement
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Maiquel (Murilo Benicio) has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlawall in 24 hours. Based on the award-winning novel by Patricia Melo Matador, this vibrant and brazen crime saga follows in the vein of recent Brazilian Cinema such as Vincente Amorim's Middle of the World, Walter Salles' Central Station and Fernando Meirelles' City of God.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Intense, semi-epic, but disappointing at the end
This film follows the downward spiral of Maiquel, a man who wants to be "normal". A man who kills the first time in passion, but becomes a local neighborhood hero when he is hired by several rich men, one of whom is his dentist, for revenge killings. The vigilante quickly rises to an empire of "neighborhood protection" that is fronted by a "security company".
His desire to remain a good man and a few bad-luck events lead to a marriage to the woman who is pregnant with his daughter. The marriage ... Read More
Rating:  - violence begets violence
At the beginning of this film Maiquel could never imagine killing a person; by the end of the film he could not not kill. The film consists largely of Maiquel's grotesque transformation. He first killed an acquaintance in a fit of rage after being taunted for dying his hair blond. Wracked with guilt and fear, he was shocked to find that the Rio locals thanked him for his vigilante justice and for "keeping trash off the street." A dentist then employs him to take revenge for raping his daughter. Before it's ... Read More
Rating:  - A Touching Nuance
Although "City of God", "City of Men" and some other Amadu-linked movies steadily provide a grotesque picture of Brazil, impressions of movie originated from a different no hands-on acquaintance soil and environment have been of a very personal approximation.
Maybe, because of language differences the only most bankable and acclaimed non-W. European masterpieces reach a broad English-speaking auditorium, viewer's amusement for actors performing and a sex-drugs-murdering scenes balance is hardly ... Read More
Rating: - Neighborhood Hero from the Most Unlikely of Circumstances
Murilo Benicio has again demonstrated an amazing range of acting ability in this most outstanding film. He plays a young man named Miqual Jorge who has no apparent direction in life, no visible means of support, and who lives in a lower class neighborhood in Rio De Janeiro. However, with one unusual change in his appearance, having dyed his hair blonde, he achieved a change in his personality, one which created a destiny he never imagined for himself ... which sealed his fate. This one event helped him act on ... Read More
Rating: - A Quietly Disturbing Character Study Made with Style
Murilo Benecio is a young Brazilian actor who just keeps turning out fine, solid and very different character roles. As the leading character is this well made film by director Jose Henrique Fonseca from a script written by his father Rubem Fonseca in turn based on the novel 'O Matador' by Patricia Melo, Benecio molds a memorable portrait of a man of low self esteem who is strangely and inadvertently raised to the level of hero in the most bizarre of circumstances.
The setting is Rio de Janiero ... Read More
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