Carandiru -2003-2003 [FREE]

directs the spotlight onto a very specific window in time—not merely the history of the São Paulo prison complex, but the year it was demolished and, more significantly, the year Brazilian cinema forced the nation to confront its darkest carceral wound.

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This internal order stands in stark contrast to the chaotic negligence of the state system. The prison is overcrowded, filthy, and disease-ridden. Yet, within these walls, the inmates cook together, play football, and create makeshift cells that look like cramped apartments. Babenco fills the screen with hundreds of extras, many of whom were actual former inmates of Carandiru, lending the production an Yet, within these walls, the inmates cook together,

Hector Babenco, the Oscar-nominated director of Pixote (1981) and Ironweed (1987), read Varella’s book and realized he didn’t want to make a film about the massacre. He wanted to make a film about the life that happened before the massacre.