Lula, the Son of Brazil
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  • Summary: Born into extreme poverty in 1945, Lula was guided by a strong mother who faced overwhelming obstacles to raise her children with the drive and courage to live life without fear. Lindu, who was abandoned by her husband just before Lula’s birth, never wavered from her strict commitment to seeeeing that her kids live a better life. She raised eight children on her own, and with an unbridled tenacity, she saw to it that each child lived life to the fullest.
    Lula spent the better part of his childhood growing up just outside of Santos, Brazil. When he wasn't in school, he helped support the family. He hustled — shining shoes, selling fruit, working as a delivery boy… Life got better and, as fate would have it, he was soon accepted to study at Senai, a technical school from which he graduated in 1963. As a full-fledged member of the union, Lula found his path to a life in politics. However it wasn’t until he experienced an intense personal transformation following the startling death of his first wife and unborn son, that Lula found the courage and ambition he needed to take full control of his destiny. This “common man” who overcame incredible adversity would soon rise to become one of the world’s most extraordinary men. (New Yorker Films)    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 9
  3. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Jan 12, 2012
    70
    A conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference.
  2. NPR
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    Jan 24, 2012
    60
    Long on hero worship and woefully short on insight, Lula: Son of Brazil oozes good intentions, but it wouldn't look out of place in a retrospective of early Soviet workerist cinema.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    Jan 26, 2012
    50
    Fábio Barreto's film is an act of hero worship, not a multifaceted exploration of a charismatic leader.
  4. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Fernando F. Croce
    Jan 9, 2012
    38
    This insipidly inspirational biopic of the two-term Brazilian president is a safe, bourgeois vision of proletarian struggle.

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