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Leonardo Villar, Ze Carlos Machado, Caca Amakal

Often young filmmakers use a lot of guesswork to prepare scripts and characters and when viewing the finished product, the audience says, "Ah, the work of a young filmmaker." Quite the opposite is tru...( read more  read more... )e of twenty-nine-year-old writer/director Beto Brant, who just last year dazzled international audiences with his assured and riveting first feature, Belly Up. Now Brant brings us Friendly Fire, a thrilling and equally complex work in which techniques apprenticed in his previous film -- particularly flashbacks to build character and camaraderie under the duress of violence -- are displayed with the confidence of a seasoned auteur. The time is now, or is it? Four middle-aged men are rounded up by ringleader and newly elected politico Miguel to go fishing in the country. Seemingly bourgeois, well groomed and educated, the men are in high spirits until Miguel reveals his true motivation -- the identification of and revenge upon a capitano who tortured them all after a thwarted bank robbery. From here on, the film divides itself between past and present: days of revolution in the early 1970s and a weekend of coming to terms with horrifying memories thirty years later. The four ex-revolutionaries have maintained successful lives, yet all have been emotionally stunted by this trauma. The scene in which the men finally come face-to-face with their nemesis is brilliantly shot and paced: Brant wisely chooses a gruesome, timeless activity - a cockfight - to foreshadow past and future as the men confront shattered dreams and the futility of a violent future.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Beto Brant

Release Date: January 22, 1999

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  • kmisangra
    September 20, 2009
    kmisangra
    hola???????? q guapo
  • leoocunha
    May 8, 2009
    leoocunha
    Como as atuacoes podem estragar um filme. Mas Brant continua competente. O roteiro eh bacaninha.
  • AntonioJunior
    August 29, 2007
    AntonioJunior
    Ótimo começo de carreira de Beto Brant, com um belo filme em seu segundo trabalho com longa metragem! Nesse trabalho já se tem ensaios do que viria a ser a grande obra prima de Brant que é 'O Invasor'! A parceria com Marçal Aquino, que se repetiria em 'Cão sem dono' rende uma tra...( read more)ma muito fluida que rende ótimas cenas nas mãos de Beto Brant.

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