City of Men (TV Series)

aka: Cidade dos Homens
Brazil 2003, 270 minutes
In Portuguese with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Television, Drama

Feat. Darlan Cunha, Douglas Silva

Aroview: Brazilian TV followup to the crime epic CITY OF GOD, continues the lives of Acerola and Laranjinha in the shanties of Sao Paolo dodging drug gangs and dealing with various travails of life in the 'favela'.

Again captured with the feverish, highly edited intensity of the film, this casts its net somewhat wider, with each episode reflecting on different aspects of the character's lives from the prison system, education and music to class politics and of course, drug dealing. Touches of animation also nicely integrated. Nine 30-minute episodes over 2 discs.

Series 1: The emperor's crown, The man's brother-in-law, The post, Uólace and João Victor

Series 2: Saturday, The two on their way to Brasilia, It has to be now, The ordinaries, Hot spot

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3 stars (Good Enough) City of Men takes on a similar visual style to 'City of God', although with a smaller budget and a less intriguing storyline. Still an interesting and unpredictable world inhabited by a small cast of believable actors. ~Tom H