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Dominican Rep. Pixote
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- Original title
- Pixote a lei do mais fraco
- Year
- 1980
- Running time
- 127 min.
- Country
Brazil- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Poverty. Childhood. Prison Drama
- Synopsis
- Before he became the darling of the American art house circuit with such films as "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Ironweed" and "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," director Hector Babenco was making equally impressive films in his native Brazil. One of these was the grueling "Pixote".
In Portuguese, Pixote means "Pee Wee," an apt name for the character played by ten-year-old Fernando Ramos da Silva. One of Brazil's millions of homeless street children, Pixote's experience is here recounted in vivid detail that some will find too harsh and realistic. Crime, brutality, sexual abuse and worse are all a part of what Pixote witnesses as both a child of the street and an inmate at a juvenile detention center. This is no glowing portrait of an innocent young child, however, but a disturbing commentary on a serious social problem in modern Brazil for which neither the country nor Babenco appears to have an answer.
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- Awards
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1981: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Film1981: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Foreign Film. 2 Nominations1981: Los Angeles Film Critics Association: Best Foreign Language Film1981: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Best Film & Best Actress (Marilia Pêra)1981: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Actress. 3 nominations1981: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
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