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DVD : City of MenIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Leandro Firmino, Alexandre Rodrigues, Daniel Zettel directed by: Kátia Lund, Cao Hamburger, Philippe Barcinski, César Charlone, Paulo Lins  List Price: $32.98 Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $7.99 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 days
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION EAN: 0660200314125 Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Palm Pictures / Umvd Manufacturer: Palm Pictures / Umvd Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Palm Pictures / Umvd Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 26, 2006 Running Time: 570 minutes Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd Sales Rank: 11745 MPN: PALMDV3141 Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: As Seen on the SUNDANCE CHANNEL From the team behind the Academy Award®-nominated feature CITY OF GOD, including directors Fernando Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDNER) and Kátia Lund comes the hit Brazilian television series CITY OF MEN, a comedy/drama about two teenage boys growing up in a dangerous Rio de Janeiro slum starring Darlan Cunha and Douglas Silva, featured in the motion picture that inspired this series. The CITY is a shantytown located in one of the many mountains of Rio de Janeiro. The MEN are two 13-year-old kids, Laranjinha and Acerola. This series brilliantly mixes humor and reality to explore life in the "favelas" and in particular the indomitable spirit of two best friends growing up in one of most volatile communities in the world. Amazon.com: Brazilian TV series City of Men is a dazzling, propulsive, and fiery exploration of life in a chaotic Rio de Janeiro slum, seen through the eyes of Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha). These two boys prove to be amazingly charming tour guides to a world by turns terrifying and exhilarating. Using the jam-packed storytelling that made the movie City of God such a revelation, the first episode alone is a marvel, merging the history of Napoleon with a cutting analysis of drug lords and class structure in the poverty-ridden neighborhood. The other three episodes of the first series carry on this riveting approach, mingling social observation with rich, compelling characters. From the second series on, the show becomes less overtly political and more about Acerola and Laranjinha's passage from youth to adulthood (embracing, with humor and pathos, the adolescent boys' obsession with sex)--though every episode has some sly or startling observation about race, wealth, and gender. Each series is filmed a year after the previous one, so the boys literally grow before our eyes; it's impossible to watch and not feel deeply involved as Acerola woos a girl named Cristiane and ends up a way-too-young father, or as an innocent prank escalates into a life-and-death struggle. Some episodes teeter on the brink of silliness--one of the last ones has the boys engaging in absurd cross-dressing--but the briskness of the writing and the charisma of Silva and Cunha carry the show through. Add to this the dynamic musical score of Brazilian pop and samba, and you have essential viewing. World music has already found popularity in the U.S.; welcome to a masterpiece of world television. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating: - EXCELLENT FOLLOW-UP TELEVISION SERIES IN THE SPIRIT OF CITY OF GODThis series does not follow the exact story or timeline as the movie City Of God but it takes place in Rio de Janeiro in the Favela. I was entertained and pleased with the acting, cinematography, and realness. I almost felt that I was there and I could have been there in my younger years. Rating: - ExcellentThis is an amazing brazlian production where you can have an excellent idea of the "favela" reality. It worths every penny! Rating: - Growing up in Rio de Janeiro's FavelasThe movie is about two teenagers,Acerola and Laranjinha.Both are 13 yrs.old,although as you go further along the series,they progressively become older teenagers. They grow up in Rio de Janeiro's dangerous slum(called the favelas)where it is said that residents are lucky if they live up to the age of 20. The City of Men is an excellent comedy drama where humor is mixed with the harsh reality of an environment of crime,drugs,sex and instant death. The scenes as well as the sounds such as the gunshots ... Read More Rating: - There is a way to live different than oursThis is the best way to show your kids that there is a different way to live besides the materialism that we are used to, and guess what, there is happiness there too, and lots of it. Here you will see how two best friends grow in one of Rio de Janeiro`s favelas, and get face to face with gangs and drug traffic, poverty, sexuality, and family problems and manage to come up being great persons, maybe not to be wealthy, but good persons, and have lots of fun while facing all this. This is the kind of ... Read More Rating: - one of the best shows ever!i dont want to repeat anything that's already been said but i just love this series so much i had to come on here and give it 5 stars. i'd give 100 if i could! i watched the entire series over 3 days time and i would reccommend it to anyone of any age. it's just so entertaining, making you laugh, cry, learn and think. the actors who play acerola and laranjinha are extremely talented (and there are a lot of hot guys in the series - tons of eye-candy.) the subtitles are great, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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