Contra todos
Brazil,
2004, 95 min
Shown in 2005
CREDITS
- dir
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Roberto Moreira
- prod
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Fernando Meirelles, Roberto Moreira
- scr
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Roberto Moreira
- cam
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Adrian Cooper
- editor
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Mirella Martinelli
- mus
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Livio Tragtenberg
- cast
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Leona Cavalli, Silvia Lourenço, Ailton Graça, Giulio Lopes, Martha Meola, Ismael de Araujo
- source
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02 Filmes, Rua Heliopolis, 410 Vilahamburguesa, São Paulo CEP 05318-010, Brazil. FAX: 55-11-3832-4811. EMAIL: claudia@02filmes.com.
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COMMENTS
Roberto Moreira in person.
OTHER
In a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of São Paulo, Bible-reading, churchgoing Teodoro (Giulio Lopes) has a beautiful, sexy wife, a teenaged daughter who adores him and lively, amusing friends. He also has a mistress as devoutly religious as he seems to be, a brutal temper that he takes out on his daughter and a job as a hired killer. Roberto Moreira’s Up Against Them All (produced by City of God director Fernando Meirelles) depicts the violent unraveling of a family as the corruption of Teodoro’s double life spills inevitably into his home. His wife Claudia (Leona Cavalli) knows that he’s being unfaithful and is having an affair with one of his friends. His loving but rebellious daughter, Soninha (Silvia Lourenço), expresses her contempt for her father’s hypocrisy through truancy, promiscuity and drug use. After a neighbor is murdered, the suspicion, the denial and the lies become impossible to contain, leading to an explosion that literally and figuratively wrecks Teodoro’s façade of piety. Giulio Lopes is compelling as a man who, no matter what, just can’t accept culpability for his own crimes and Ailton Graça is wonderful as the family friend who hides his own vicious moral nihilism behind a cheerful, hedonistic exterior.
—Pamela Troy
FACTOID #200
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