Arguably the greatest footballer of all time, Pelé – born Edison Arantes do Nascimento; this short film, directed by Luciano Moura and Nando Olival, and executive produced by Fernando Meirelles (director of City Of God, The Constant Gardener), is a fictionalized account of a now 69-year old Pelé, returning to play for the Brazil national team, against the country’s long-time rivals, Argentina, as Pelé, who finished his career playing for the New York Cosmos in the now-defunct North American Soccer League, in the late 1970s, gets his opportunity to score his final career goal as a Brazilian team player.
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- 6/28/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The City of God director is bringing his wit and energy to the capital for a talk as part of Festival Brazil
It is Festival Brazil in the UK this week, and as a part of it, the director Fernando Meirelles is coming to London next Tuesday evening to talk about his movies and Brazilian cinema in general – an event in which I am tangentially involved.
Meirelles is, of course the film-maker whose explosively powerful City of God – which effortlessly secured the bragging rights at the Cannes film festival when it premiered there in 2002 – did more than anything to trigger a new Latin American wave. It was the complex, interwoven account of gang-warfare in the Cidade De Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: the story of children who manage to be both the ghetto's underclass and its criminal overlords. Its hyperactive energy was much admired and imitated, and three years later,...
It is Festival Brazil in the UK this week, and as a part of it, the director Fernando Meirelles is coming to London next Tuesday evening to talk about his movies and Brazilian cinema in general – an event in which I am tangentially involved.
Meirelles is, of course the film-maker whose explosively powerful City of God – which effortlessly secured the bragging rights at the Cannes film festival when it premiered there in 2002 – did more than anything to trigger a new Latin American wave. It was the complex, interwoven account of gang-warfare in the Cidade De Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: the story of children who manage to be both the ghetto's underclass and its criminal overlords. Its hyperactive energy was much admired and imitated, and three years later,...
- 6/25/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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