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Pixote

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Pixote
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2hrs 5min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1981
Director:
Hector Babenco
Distributor:
New Yorker Video
Starring:
Fernando Ramos Da Silva, Jorge Juliano, Gilberto Moura  ...more
Synopsis: The Brazilian Pixote so closely resembles the films of Luis Buñuel that one is almost shocked to see writer/director Hector Babenco's name on the credits. This is hardly the only shock in this near-hallucinatory cinematic experience. The title character, played by Fernando Ramos da Silva, has been abandoned by his parents and is scrounging for a living on the streets. Pixote survives by becoming a drug-dealer, pimp and murderer...and he's only ten years old. One of the first films to address the ... Full Synopsis
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Jonathan Crow, AMG Review
Not since Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados has there been as savage and harrowing account of the plight of street kids or as damning a critique of Third World poverty and societal indifference. 10-year-old Pixote ("Pee Wee" in Portuguese) endures the brutalities of Brazil's repressive, corrupt reform schools, where military death squads and juvenile prison rape are the norm, only to flee to the dubious ... Full Review
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