Lower City with Alice Braga: DVD Cover

    Lower City
    a.k.a. Cidade Baixa Director: Sérgio Machado Cast: Alice Braga, Lazaro Ramos, Wagner Moura, José Dumont

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/12/2006
    • Original Release: 2005
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 32,172

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    Features

    Behind the scenes featurette; Deleted scenes; Cast rehearsal; US theatrical trailer; Palm previews; Weblinks; 5.1 Surround Sound; English and Spanish Subtitles

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    Scene Index

    Disc #1 -- Lower City
    1. The Price for a Ride [6:05]
    2. Cockfight [5:25]
    3. Stabbed [7:02]
    4. Looking for Work [4:49]
    5. In Love With a Whore [2:42]
    6. Muchachas [4:06]
    7. Among Friends [5:58]
    8. Hanging's Just for Men [10:11]
    9. Robbery [4:17]
    10. The Dancer [3:18]
    11. You Have to Decide [4:29]
    12. I've Had It With You [3:12]
    13. A Trick Turns Deadly [3:40]
    14. Move in With Me [1:12]
    15. Another Offer [8:40]
    16. Fight [4:50]
    17. Taking Refuge [3:06]
    18. End Credits [3:55]

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    Editorial Reviews

    A simple cruise turns into a jealous battle for the affections of a sultry prostitute as the co-owners of a small cargo boat make their way down the Brazilian coastline in director Sergio Machado's stylish and sultry erotic drama. Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) are best friends who make their living by renting out their modest cargo boat. Approached by 20-year-old prostitute Karinna (Alice Braga) for a ride down the coast, the trio sets out into the waters with both Deco and Naldinho employing her professional services throughout the course of the journey. After a fateful knife fight at a Cachoeira cockfight leaves Naldinho struggling for his life, Deco finds himself slowly falling for Karinna as his badly wounded friend battles back from the brink of death. Though Karinna's relationship with Deco becomes increasingly intimate during Naldinho's convalescence, it doesn't take long for the kindly prostitute to realize that Deco isn't the only one with intentions of claiming her as his own. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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    November 11, 2006: “Lower City” was quite good. As a whole, I enjoyed this film but was far from being blown away. All three of the leads are give an opportunity to make an impression. The script however, leaves a bit to be desired. After watching this yesterday the movies that came to mine was City of God/ Amores Perros/ Y Tu Mama Tambien simply because it was to be expected. It is one of the good films that had recently came out of South America. However, “Lower City” doesn't quite live up to its comparative brothers but does manage to create a feel of its own. I empathized with each of the characters and felt they were played brilliantly by the actors involved. There was a real sense of raw passion with the helplessness of the poverty/ crime lifestyle they find themselves in. In this film we have two childhood friends, Deco (Lazaro Ramos) and Naldinho (Wagner Moura) whom both meet Karinna (Alice Braga), a stripper looking for a cheap ride to the city of Salvador, in exchange for sexual favours with the boys. Deco first, and Naldinho later, fall in love for Karinna, who likes both of them, forming a triangle of love and jeopardizing the friendship of Deco and Naldinho. "Cidade Baixa" is a real and cruel triangle of love, having the landscape of the red light district in the lower zone of Salvador and the environment of hopeless people that lives in the limit of the marginality of the society, prostituting, robbing, and fighting for surviving. The plot is actually unpredictable, with many possibilities and an open end. But the great surprise is the unknown actress Alice Braga, niece of Sonia Braga, performing a very erotic and searing character and dignifying the name of her aunt. Even though this is a low budget movie it exhales sexual tension and mild eroticism. The pace of the story does dips in the middle but the end delivers excitement and resolution. If you are a fan of Brazilian movies like myself, this is a must watch since it's casted by two of the new generation of great Brazilian actors.