Carandiru (2003)
Country: BRA/US
Technical: col 145m
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida
Synopsis:
In 1992, Sao Paolo's notoriously overcrowded prison erupts into rioting and in the ensuing police clampdown over a hundred detainees are massacred in their cellblock. We meet the slain and the spared through the eyes of a doctor, assigned to the gaol a few months previously in an attempt to stay the spread of AIDS among prisoners.
Review:
Kaleidoscopic, multi-stranded drama-documentary with Goodfellas-style flashbacks to the lives of the characters on the outside. An outrageous exposé if one pauses to think about the conditions and levels of security, where it is not so much the corruptness of screws that determines life and limb as the prisoners' own power hierarchy; in fact things function exactly as in a Mob environment on the outside. Of interest for the opportunity it affords for peeping into another world, albeit peopled with recognisably human beings.
Country: BRA/US
Technical: col 145m
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida
Synopsis:
In 1992, Sao Paolo's notoriously overcrowded prison erupts into rioting and in the ensuing police clampdown over a hundred detainees are massacred in their cellblock. We meet the slain and the spared through the eyes of a doctor, assigned to the gaol a few months previously in an attempt to stay the spread of AIDS among prisoners.
Review:
Kaleidoscopic, multi-stranded drama-documentary with Goodfellas-style flashbacks to the lives of the characters on the outside. An outrageous exposé if one pauses to think about the conditions and levels of security, where it is not so much the corruptness of screws that determines life and limb as the prisoners' own power hierarchy; in fact things function exactly as in a Mob environment on the outside. Of interest for the opportunity it affords for peeping into another world, albeit peopled with recognisably human beings.
Country: BRA/US
Technical: col 145m
Director: Hector Babenco
Cast: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Milton Gonçalves, Ivan de Almeida
Synopsis:
In 1992, Sao Paolo's notoriously overcrowded prison erupts into rioting and in the ensuing police clampdown over a hundred detainees are massacred in their cellblock. We meet the slain and the spared through the eyes of a doctor, assigned to the gaol a few months previously in an attempt to stay the spread of AIDS among prisoners.
Review:
Kaleidoscopic, multi-stranded drama-documentary with Goodfellas-style flashbacks to the lives of the characters on the outside. An outrageous exposé if one pauses to think about the conditions and levels of security, where it is not so much the corruptness of screws that determines life and limb as the prisoners' own power hierarchy; in fact things function exactly as in a Mob environment on the outside. Of interest for the opportunity it affords for peeping into another world, albeit peopled with recognisably human beings.