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  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 10 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 10 m

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 seeing that her kids live a better life. She raise...

Directed By: Fábio Barreto, Marcelo Santiago

Written By: Fernando Bonassi, Denise Paraná, Daniel Tendler

  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 10 m
  • 2012
  • Not Rated
  • New Yorker Films
  • 2 h 10 m

Lula, the Son of Brazil

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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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 seeing that her kids live a better life. She raise...

Directed By: Fábio Barreto, Marcelo Santiago

Written By: Fernando Bonassi, Denise Paraná, Daniel Tendler

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
11% Positive
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67% Mixed
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22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
11% Positive
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews

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70
Jan 12, 2012
A conventional, rather shallow up-by-your-bootstraps drama, but with a difference.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 24, 2012
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.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW

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30% Positive
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70% Negative
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Jan 9, 2012
The screenplay by Daniel Tendler, Fernando Bonassi and Lula biographer Parana succumbs to many of the most unfortunate narrative tendencies of biopics, including a proclivity for piling on incident after incident as a substitute for real character insight.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
42
Jan 14, 2012
The film is more testimonial than drama.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 10, 2012
Forget "Son of Brazil": This syrupy origin story/biopic on the nation's beloved reformist president, whose second term ended in 2010, should be titled Mama's Boy.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
38
Jan 9, 2012
This insipidly inspirational biopic of the two-term Brazilian president is a safe, bourgeois vision of proletarian struggle.
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25
Jan 13, 2012
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's reformist two-term president, gets the once-over-lightly treatment in Lula, Son of Brazil.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Costa Films, Globo Filmes, Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas
Release Date Jan 13, 2012
Duration 2 h 10 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.lulaofilhodobrasil.com.br/
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Awards

ACIE Awards, Brazil
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 2 Nominations

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