Sequestro: A Story of Kidnapping
  • Release Date: Sep 10, 2010
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  • Summary: During four years a film crew followed for the first time the classified investigations and tactics of the Sao Paulo Anti-Kidnapping Police Division. During this period 386 people were kidnapped in the State and over 1,500 Brazil. Kidnappers victim, police officers, politicians mixed with the emotions of police actions takes the view to experience the real life drama of living in Latin America's largest and most terrorizing city.(Yukon Filmworks)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    70
    Amazingly, the suspenseful Sequestro is a film of a remarkable number of happy endings, a tribute to the well-honed skills and knowledge that the DAS has developed since its founding in 2000.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    60
    Filming over four years and tracking several cases, the Brazilian director Jorge W. Atalla favors a fevered shooting style that's repetitious and disorienting but also effortlessly dramatic.
  3. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Stephen Garrett
    60
    There are riveting moments, especially in tastefully shot interviews with former captives, who quietly describe their physical and psychological torture.
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: John DeFore
    50
    The audience it manages to reach will find it as vicerally satisfying as a doc on this subject can be.

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