[extract] I’ve heard Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund’s 2002 Oscar-nominated film to be likened to Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Much like Antonia Bird’s drama Priest (2004) been likened to The Exorcist because they both feature members of the church questioning their own faith, the two films couldn’t be more dissimilar. Take away the theme of crime and the time-switching narrative and you’ve got two films as far apart as the geographical regions where they were filmed. City Of God isn’t interested in over-stylised characters that overplay the merits of the metric system or theatrical violence and pop-culture references, it cuts far closer to the bone than that. And perhaps most importantly, unlike Pulp Fiction, City Of God seeks to tell us something we didn’t already know – and I’m not talking about the French new wave. [extract] (READ FULL REVIEW HERE)
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discobod
- http://discobod.blog.co.uk
- 2007-04-25 @ 19:37:53
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MrStrange
- 2007-04-25 @ 22:26:50
It compares well. It has the hard-edge and ruthless tone of British gangster films such as The Long Good Friday, Get Carter, and more recently Dead Man's Shoes and The Football Factory. It's comparisons to Tarantino's Pulp Fiction are more in City Of God's style than anything else, yet the Brazilian film does investigate familial loyalty and cultural identity like other American Gangster/crime films such as The Godfather and Goodfellas.
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IronicFilmReference
- 2007-05-03 @ 18:32:39
It's a very good film from a relatively new source (i also recomend Bus 174, another great braziliann film) but i dont see any connection to Pulp Fiction whatsoever.
As for being the best of 2003 or 2004, there are many films i preferred over it (too many to list here at least) -
i ordered this film only yesterday from amazon rental on a recommendation of a brazilian friend of mine
how does it compare to other films of its genre?