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Guns rule Rio in City of Men

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This spin-off from Fernando Meirelles's superior City of God is another colourfully filmed story of the Rio favelas, where the poor really are poor and gangs of heavily armed young males rule the roost. This time the director is Paulo Morelli, who follows the fates of two youths who have grown up together on Dead-End hill, neither of whom know who their fathers are.

Ace (Douglas silva) and Wallace (Darlan Cunha) are implicated with rival gangs who want to command the hill and they are very lucky not to end up dead, since it is discovered by a nasty gang leader that Ace's father killed Wallace's in a gang fight years ago. City of Men is very watchable throughout and not as hysterical as City of God. But it is also not shot with as much hyperrealist cinema-vérité style.

City Of Men (Cidade Dos Homens)
Cert: 15

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