THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O Homem do Ano)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0616892590422
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Film Movement
Languages: PortugueseUnknownEnglishSubtitledPortugueseOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Film Movement
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: Film Movement
Release Date: August 08, 2007
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Film Movement
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Review:Product Description:The Film Movement Series present a Brazilian film 'O Homem Do Ano' (Man of the Year). It is based on the award-winning novel O Matador by Patricia Melo. Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiguel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw. In Portugese with English subtitles.
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At the beginning of this film Maiquel could never imagine killing a person; by the end of the film he could not not kill. The film consists largely of Maiquel's grotesque transformation. He first killed an acquaintance in a fit of rage after being taunted for dying his hair blond. Wracked with guilt and fear, he was shocked to find that the Rio locals thanked him for his vigilante justice and for "keeping trash off the street." A dentist then employs him to take revenge for raping his daughter. Before ...
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Although "City of God", "City of Men" and some other Amadu-linked movies steadily provide a grotesque picture of Brazil, impressions of movie originated from a different no hands-on acquaintance soil and environment have been of a very personal approximation.
Maybe, because of language differences the only most bankable and acclaimed non-W. European masterpieces reach a broad English-speaking auditorium, viewer's amusement for actors performing and a sex-drugs-murdering scenes balance is ...
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Murilo Benicio has again demonstrated an amazing range of acting ability in this most outstanding film. He plays a young man named Miqual Jorge who has no apparent direction in life, no visible means of support, and who lives in a lower class neighborhood in Rio De Janeiro. However, with one unusual change in his appearance, having dyed his hair blonde, he achieved a change in his personality, one which created a destiny he never imagined for himself ... which sealed his fate. This one event helped him ...
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Murilo Benecio is a young Brazilian actor who just keeps turning out fine, solid and very different character roles. As the leading character is this well made film by director Jose Henrique Fonseca from a script written by his father Rubem Fonseca in turn based on the novel 'O Matador' by Patricia Melo, Benecio molds a memorable portrait of a man of low self esteem who is strangely and inadvertently raised to the level of hero in the most bizarre of circumstances.
The setting is Rio de ...
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This film never made it into american theaters (besides a few festivals where it won awards) but it is an outstandingly brash film, and gorgeous to look at. My only criticism might be the ending being a little disappointing, but the lead up is well worth it.
