City Of God (2003 Foreign Film)

The seventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003 features one of the year’s most notable foreign films, Fernando Meirelles’ City of God. Directed by Fernando Meirelles (with co-direction by Katia Lund) and starring Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Phellipe Haagensen and Douglas Silva, City of God premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for four Oscars.

The reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/city-of-god-2003), Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2003/01/24/AR2005033116342.html), and Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe.

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