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In addiction to altemon's fun thread, I felt like creating this one too. That basically it, if you live in a lesser known country, or feel some movie from your country is way underrated, talk about and share it here!
So, lemme get started, brazilian movies I find brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTivdzpDqP0 Blindness, Fernando Meirelles' movie on José Saramago's nobel winner novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. Strong critics on society, in several ways simmilar to Clockwork Orange. Read the book, saw the movie, cried a river, thought buckets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUE_5wpg_E City of God, also a Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of a brilliant book (Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus) about the violence in poor brazilian communities. Read the book, saw the movie, laughed a mile, thought buckets. "E quem falô que a boca é tua rapá?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWH...610A4328&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=57 Os Sete Gatinhos (eng: The Seven Kitties), Neville d'Almeida's adaptation of a Nélson Rodrigues novel about a father who makes his own daughters work as prostitutes. Very insightful, also very intelligent humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ako8metwlAY Central do Brasil (Central Station), a road movie by Walter Salles about a woman searching for redemption trying to find a young boy's family. Made me cry like a baby from beginning to end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKI6uwZbxM Carandiru, Hector Babenko's film based on the novel by Drauzio Varella (a famous brazilian doctor) about the penitentiary named Carandiru, where 111 inmates died in a massacre, 102 of them where killed by the police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kBGBW4Ozw O Auto da Compadecida (aka The Dog's Will), film directed by Guel Arraes based on a play by writer Adriano Suassuna. It mixes elements from cordel literature, religious tradition and popular culture. Critic and loads of fun, reaaally.
So, what about you?
So, lemme get started, brazilian movies I find brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTivdzpDqP0 Blindness, Fernando Meirelles' movie on José Saramago's nobel winner novel Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. Strong critics on society, in several ways simmilar to Clockwork Orange. Read the book, saw the movie, cried a river, thought buckets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUE_5wpg_E City of God, also a Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of a brilliant book (Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus) about the violence in poor brazilian communities. Read the book, saw the movie, laughed a mile, thought buckets. "E quem falô que a boca é tua rapá?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWH...610A4328&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=57 Os Sete Gatinhos (eng: The Seven Kitties), Neville d'Almeida's adaptation of a Nélson Rodrigues novel about a father who makes his own daughters work as prostitutes. Very insightful, also very intelligent humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ako8metwlAY Central do Brasil (Central Station), a road movie by Walter Salles about a woman searching for redemption trying to find a young boy's family. Made me cry like a baby from beginning to end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKI6uwZbxM Carandiru, Hector Babenko's film based on the novel by Drauzio Varella (a famous brazilian doctor) about the penitentiary named Carandiru, where 111 inmates died in a massacre, 102 of them where killed by the police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kBGBW4Ozw O Auto da Compadecida (aka The Dog's Will), film directed by Guel Arraes based on a play by writer Adriano Suassuna. It mixes elements from cordel literature, religious tradition and popular culture. Critic and loads of fun, reaaally.
So, what about you?