‘The Wrong Girls’ is Proudly Not Much of Anything
By MARIO NAVES
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“City of Men” takes place in a Rio favela, or shantytown, where children are cast adrift at a young age and left to grow up on their own. Produced by “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles, Paulo Morelli’s follow-up to that filmmaker’s Oscar-nominated 2002 film, “City of Men,” depicts the same kind of brash, impoverished hillside community — a gang-ruled honeycomb where the air is noisy with squawking stereos and barking dogs. Mr. Morelli’s film is a vivid and believable portrait, albeit somewhat overstuffed. In this case, that soundtrack is no match for the cacophony of intersecting dramas that take over the screen.
“City of Men” takes place in a Rio favela, or shantytown, where children are cast adrift at a young age and left to grow up on their own. Produced by “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles, Paulo Morelli’s follow-up to that filmmaker’s Oscar-nominated 2002 film, “City of Men,” depicts the same kind of brash, impoverished hillside community — a gang-ruled honeycomb where the air is noisy with squawking stereos and barking dogs. Mr. Morelli’s film is a vivid and believable portrait, albeit somewhat overstuffed. In this case, that soundtrack is no match for the cacophony of intersecting dramas that take over the screen.
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