Carandiru
Starring: Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Details: Braz / 146 mins / (No Cert).
A film where the threat of violence doesn't so much hang over as saturate it, Carandiru is harsh, brutal but enlightening. Observing the plight of its subjects in a detached tone, the director skilfully refuses to judge the prisoners until tragic events take hold within the walls of the jail. That the narrative is unconventional and the fact that the prisoners have little obvious relation to each other may irk some. But while the film's pacing does certainly lag in some areas, the extraordinary dynamism of many of the mini-sagas recounted by the prisoners richly compensates.
Review by Garreth Murphy
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