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Overall Rank: 25249
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 2
Theatrical Release Date: 03/15/1996
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dirk Shafer
Actors: Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Marisi Ornstein, Cal Bartlett, Mary Stein, Dirk Shafer
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Bribaba - wrote on 05/03/2011
Man of the Year from Brazil, mines the same territory as City of God, but any comparison with that extraordinary work would be unfavourable. Jose's Fonseca's film is a powerful and violent story of a moody chancer whose life is transformed when he dyes his hair blonde for a bet. On the face of it, it's an unlikely premise and yet when seen in the machismo context of the Rio barrios, it acquires a logic and power all of its own. The title has a bitter irony to it, and not just because the real stars of the film are the two women in the life of this homen d' anno: Claudia Abreu and Natalia Lage.
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