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Dominican Rep. Behind the Sun
- Original title
- Abril Despedaçado
- Year
- 2001
- Running time
- 105 min.
- Country
Brazil- Director
- Screenwriter
- Walter Salles, Sergio Machado, Karim Aïnouz. Novel: Ismail Kadare. Dialogues: João Moreira Salles, Daniela Thomas
- Cast
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
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Co-production Brazil-France-Switzerland; VideoFilmes, Arthur Cohn Productions, Bac Films, Dan Valley Film, Haut et Court. Distributor: Miramax
- Genre
- Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama
- Synopsis
- When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2001: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Language Film2001: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best Film not in the English Language2001: Venice Film Festival: nominated to Golden Lion - Best Picture.2001: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Five Foreing Films.
- Critics' reviews
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"Carvalho's superb cinematography, Antonio Pinto's score and a dedicated cast and crew admirably sustain this poetic and uncompromising film."
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"A compelling existential tableau: sweating bodies, creaking mills turned by numbed oxen, people facing the daily and seasonal cycles of life with little hope of breaking free"
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"When a culture offers little more than death upon death, appreciating life's everyday beauty is as good an answer as these characters -- and this filmmaker -- can provide."
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"The film unapologetically courts the commercial curve of the international arthouse arena with its rustic exotica and sensory overload of poetic imagery, giving it something of a grandiose air."
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"It has some of the simplicity and starkness of classical tragedy, but what made me impatient was its fascination with the macho bloodlust of the two families."
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"The movie's subject is brotherly love in all its extremes; the trajectory is grimly inevitable, and yet its final descent still manages to startle."
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