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emailMonday, May 5, 2008
Film Screening: Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite--Brazil 2007)
From the experiences of two Rio police officers, Elite
Squad seeks to explain how the violence of fighting
drug traffickers spawns police corruption and summary justice.
Narrated by Nascimento, an embittered, bullish officer in Rio de
Janeiro's black-bereted special police squadron, the film builds a
complex narrative around two new recruits learning the hard way
that the police force mirrors the city's underworld. Alongside its
commercial success, the film has excited great controversy as an
apology for police brutality. But director Padilha's previous film
was the hostage-crisis documentary Bus 174 (2002), a
sensitive depiction of the spiral of poverty and inadequate
criminal justice that both creates and feeds off urban violence in
Brazil, which suggests that Elite Squad is more critique than
celebration.
Directed by José Padilha. With Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira
Brazil 2007, 35mm, color, 118 min. Brazilian Portuguese with English subtitles
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the director, José Padilha, Harvard Law professor James Cavallaro, who has written extensively on violence in Brazil, and Brazilian film scholar José Gatti.
Free with Harvard ID / $10 for the general public
Monday, May 5, 7:00 pm
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa
- Location:Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
- Date:Monday, May 5, 2008
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Time:7:00 PM
