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Lower City (2005) Reviews

Lower City (2005)
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A simple cruise turns into a jealous battle for the affections of a sultry prostitute as the co-owners of a small cargo boat make their way down the Brazilian coastline in director Sergio Machado's stylish and sultry erotic drama. Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) are best friends who make their living by renting out their modest cargo boat. Approached by 20-year-old prostitute Karinna (Alice Braga) for a ride down the coast, the trio sets out into the waters with both Deco and Naldinho employing her professional services throughout the course of the journey. After a fateful knife fight at a Cachoeira cockfight leaves Naldinho struggling for his life, Deco finds himself slowly falling for Karinna as his badly wounded friend battles back from the brink of death. Though Karinna's relationship with Deco becomes increasingly intimate during Naldinho's convalescence, it doesn't take long for the kindly prostitute to realize that Deco isn't the only one with intentions of claiming her as his own. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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Starring:
Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, (more)
Director(s):
Sérgio Machado
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
R
Format(s):
DVD
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(11 member reviews)  

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Martin C.

This is certainly not the Girl from Ipanema! This is a different life altogether. Life in the underworld, with all its violence and despair. Don't watch this film if you are thinking of visiting Salvador as a tourist. I think it was well acted and directed. It was so realistic that my wife couldn't take it and stopped watching half way through.

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James V.

Three good performances from three photogenic actors does not a movie make, as proven by the Brazilian LOWER CITY, which begins well but has nowhere to go because director/co-writer Sergio Machado allows it nowhere to go. He pins the whole film around the old story of a female coming between two men (even though she does try her darndest to make things right). Nice local color and lots of violence may help certain audience members to weather the slough. For the rest of us, it's finally too tiresome a journey. Sonia Braga's daughter Alice co-stars (a career beckons), along with the compulsively watchable Lazaro Ramos ("Madame Sata," "Carandiru") and Wagner Moura ("The Man of the Year" and "The Three Marias").

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John W.

Disturbing but well worth watching.,

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David G.

Good film. Thumbs Up!

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Robert P.

Well, for a foreign-language movie, this one wasn't especially good. At least we got to see Alice Braga naked a few times. The plot was depressing and, in my opinion, stupid. Why couldn't Deco & Naldinho just agree to SHARE the woman? She was a prostitute anyway.

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Leslie M.

What a depressing movie. Cute 20 year old pregnant hooker with two boyfriends wallow in utter poverty, senseless violence, petty crime and despair... with a gruesome suicide added along with the hookers gross looking clients for huge dose of reality for lives of prostitutes.

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Brrian M.

This wasn't great, but I gave an extra half star because it was so not Hollywood. The performances were believeable and the ending though maybe unsatisfying in some respects was true to the form of the rest of the film.

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RASHEED H.

this film begins great, then you wonder where the story is going. it reads like a novel in a lot of ways so it requires patience. However, it's a really interesting film that almost makes you forget your watching a movie. dig this, it sometimes moves slow yet some how it doesnt get boring (if that makes sense). The characters are very well portrayed. Alicia Braga is dynamic as the prostitute that comes between two friends that own a ferry, she's great looking and her acting is very convincing. Brazil has never looked so raw and attractive at the same time. this is not rio near the beach, this is not the concrete Christ, but rather, the deep, dark and sensual side of the "lower city" I recommend it.

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Carl J.

This movie is great. Real life in the seediness of society that we generally choose to ignore. It would be typical in any modern day society, not just Brazil.

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Jack F.

this movie is awesome. the life in Brazil. i didn't like the ending to much. but the movie is sick. rent it.

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    Martin C.

    This is certainly not the Girl from Ipanema! This is a different life altogether. Life in the underworld, with all its violence and despair. Don't watch this film if you are thinking of visiting Salvador as a tourist. I think it was well acted and directed. It was so realistic that my wife couldn't take it and stopped watching half way through.

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    James V.

    Three good performances from three photogenic actors does not a movie make, as proven by the Brazilian LOWER CITY, which begins well but has nowhere to go because director/co-writer Sergio Machado allows it nowhere to go. He pins the whole film around the old story of a female coming between two men (even though she does try her darndest to make things right). Nice local color and lots of violence may help certain audience members to weather the slough. For the rest of us, it's finally too tiresome a journey. Sonia Braga's daughter Alice co-stars (a career beckons), along with the compulsively watchable Lazaro Ramos ("Madame Sata," "Carandiru") and Wagner Moura ("The Man of the Year" and "The Three Marias").

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    John W.

    Disturbing but well worth watching.,

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