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- 2004
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- Film Movement
- 1 h 25 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 25 m
Summary Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is about a couple and their five children - ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old - as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle across Brazil in search of a dream. (Buena Vista International)
Directed By: Vicente Amorim
Written By: David França Mendes
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 25 m
- 2004
- Not Rated
- Film Movement
- 1 h 25 m
The Middle of the World
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Summary Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is about a couple and their five children - ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old - as they travel 3,200 km by bicycle across Brazil in search of a dream. (Buena Vista International)
Directed By: Vicente Amorim
Written By: David França Mendes
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Mixed
5 Reviews
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29% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
32
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
71% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Although not what American studios generally mean by "family fare," this drama is actually excellent family viewing -- it both opens a window onto another culture and, through Antonio, speaks the universal language of teen angst.
In the depiction of this unlikely journey -- it is supposedly based on a real-life story -- the film awkwardly veers between naturalism and a striving for poetic myth.
Wants to be both a realistic family drama and a mythical odyssey but lacks the substance to be much more than a vignette.
Debuting helmer Vicente Amorim provides a determined forward movement, which, while lacking in cultural explanation, gives the saga uplift and punch.
A dull film, inspired by a true story.
When they (the family) arrive at their destination, the story arrives at an ending that's neither obvious nor interesting, kind of like the film leading up to it.
Director Vicente Amorim's dramatic instincts evoke after-school specials (most of the drama entails the clan's brooding teenager chomping at the parental bit), and his visual ideas are restricted to aping "City of God's" fish-eye ambience and hectic editing.
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Production Company
Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas,
Filmes do Equador,
Miravista,
Globo Filmes,
MegaColor,
Riofilme,
Quanta Centro de Produções Cinematográficas,
Lereby Productions,
Sundance Institute Brazil Screenwriters Lab
Release Date Apr 9, 2004
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
Cartagena Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Prêmio Qualidade, Brazil
• 2 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 2 Nominations
