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Lower City (Cidade Baixa)
Palm Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, some violence and drug use
Starring
Lázaro Ramos,
Wagner Moura,
Alice Braga,
and
José Dumont
Two friends who co-own a cargo boat fall for the same girl.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
|
Foreign
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Karim Ainouz
Sérgio Machado
Adriana Rattes (contributing writer)
Gil Vicente (contributing writer)
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Sérgio Machado
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 12, 2006
Theatrical: June 16, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
98 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Brazil |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Portuguese (with English subtitles) |
Award of Youth, 2005 Cannes Film Festival

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Director Sérgio Machado, who worked as an assistant to Central Station's Walter Salles, lingers sensually over every wrong move his attractive tragic trio make.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Alice Braga owns this film.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Noel Murray
Whatever its pretensions of social relevance, Sérgio Machado's Lower City is essentially an exploitation movie, and not a half-bad one at that.

75
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
The impressive first feature by Sergio Machado, a one-time assistant to Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), is a trip through a grungy world of crime, sex and cockfights.

75
Portland Oregonian
Marc Mohan
Three potent performances readily compensate for the familiar plot.

70
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Despite the lurid content, this is a beautifully made film that reaches for moral seriousness and resists facile judgments.

70
Variety
Deborah Young
Though the storyline is dirt simple and not particularly meaningful or involving, the action in this character-driven film is scintillatingly sexy.

70
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
In the end, Lower City is never quite as energetic as it wants to be, touched by the strange, milky lethargy that steeps every waterfront film.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
The themes are all familiar and the plot unfolds slowly and in predictable ways, but there's plenty of heat generated by the three leads.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Lower City is sexy, but in a nice, dirty way. Everyone in it is deliciously low and sleazy, and so underdressed in the blazing heat that they are just dying to strip.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Even though Lower City ultimately leads nowhere (the movie doesn't end so much as simply stop), you won't mind having taken the trip.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
From its actual and figurative scenes of cockfighting to its copious use of throbbing Brazilian music, there's little here that rises above the level of formula. But director Machado displays a sure touch in his ability to convey the sultry atmosphere of his exotic setting, and he has elicited admirably naturalistic performances from his highly attractive, youthful performers.

50
Boston Globe
Michael Hardy
Everyone involved in the film seems better than the material.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bill White
In trying for realism, Machado only achieves dramatic inertness.

50
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
A bone-tired tale underneath.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but Ms. Braga almost makes it work.

50
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The story wears thin long before it's over, but Machado draws strong performances from his leads and makes excellent use of its rundown locations.

50
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
This frenetic potboiler about a love triangle on the Salvador waterfront smacks of liberal slumming and bristles with faux authenticity.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Machado establishes a realistically seamy environment for his erotic triangle, and there are some surprisingly tender moments amid the squalor.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Two guys panting over the same babe leads to tedium, despite a near-record number of overheated sex scenes.


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