Lower City R

Lower City
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 12, 2006
  • Originally Released: 2006
  • Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 20,598
Rating: 2.5/4 -- Strong performances by the three leads ... help to make up for the story's sliver of a plot.
Miami Herald
Aug 4, 2006
3 stars out of 5 -- Boasting raw, handheld camerawork and bathed in sultry golden hues, it succeeds in challenging national taboos...
Total Film
Jul 1, 2006
Rating: 2/4 -- Everything feels obvious and by-the-numbers, as if director and co-writer Sérgio Machado was constrained by archetypes and narrative tradition.
Seattle Times
Aug 18, 2006
Rating: 4/4 -- A gritty, Brazilian drama which called for Alice Braga to be naked and in heat nearly non-stop, whether in a bed with a boyfriend or one of her assortedy Johns. Full Review
University City Review
Jun 16, 2007
Rating: 2/4 -- Everyone involved in the film seems better than the material. Full Review
Boston Globe
Aug 12, 2006
Rating: 3/4 -- For stretches it's enough to enjoy the grungy but gorgeous locations, the soulful performances of the three leads and the frequent, ravenous sex scenes. OK, for long stretches it's enough.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Sep 6, 2006
The meager plot is no more than a clothesline upon which to hang some heated sex scenes and ugly violence. Full Review
Film Journal International
Mar 1, 2007

Product Description:

Steamy sex, glistening sweat, dark photography, grungy ghetto colors, and sudden violence pervade this Brazilian feature from director Sergio Machado. Alice Braga (CITY OF GOD) stars as Karinna, a traveling prostitute who trades her favors to lifelong friends Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) for a ride back to Salvador on their run down boat. After Deco is almost killed at a cockfight, the three form a temporary menage-a-trois friendship, but the intense love each man feels for Karinna coupled with their homophobic macho wariness threatens to destroy their once unbreakable friendship. The pair starts hanging out at the seedy strip club where she plies her trade, each trying to one up the other, raising money from a life of crime and crooked boxing matches respectively. Machado culls a lot of sweaty atmosphere from his locations and a grimy cast of authentic locals as extras. The three leads ably convey the passion and pain of living in itinerant, eternal adolescence, lost in a glowing fog of cigarette smoke, sex, sweat, and neon, struggling towards some sort of stability in the haze. A big Cannes favorite, the film should please fans of sexy art-house hits like Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN and AMORES PERROS.

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  • UPC: 660200314026
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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