Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco directs the confrontational drama Carandiru, based on the best-selling novel by Dr. Drauzio Varella. The episodic story is set in Sao Paulo's House of Detention (referred to as Carandiru), one of Latin America's largest prison systems. The doctor (Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos) is an oncologist who arrives in the jail ...
Celebrated Brazilian director João Batista de Andrade's Blood and Wine: A Brazilian Story operates on two levels - the personal and the sociopolitical - thus suggesting a Brazilian version of Marco Tullio Giordana's 2003 La Meglio Gioventu. On one plane, it observes daily events from the lives of an average Brazilian clan as the decades pass, and ...
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