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Brazilian Cinema
Cinema Novo and its descendants — hunger, favela, sertão — filmed with a hand-held urgency that treats poverty as a subject rather than a backdrop.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
City of God
Fernando Meirelles · 2002
Black God, White Devil
Glauber Rocha · 1964
Central Station
Walter Salles · 1998
Bacurau
Kleber Mendonça Filho · 2019
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