City of God (2011)

Original title

സിറ്റി ഓഫ് ഗോഡ്

Directed by

Lijo Jose Pellissery

Genre

action film, crime film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 25m

Rated

UA

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tamil migrant workers and a land mafia gang clash in the city of Kochi. The film follows multiple characters whose stories connect through crime and survival.

grittyintricateurgentbleakfast-pacedinterwovenatmospherictense

What happens

City of God is a 2011 Indian Malayalam-language crime thriller film directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery and written by Babu Janardhanan. It tells the story of Tamil migrant workers and a team of land mafia gangsters in the city of Kochi, Kerala. It stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indrajith Sukumaran, Rajeev Pillai, Rohini, Parvathy Thiruvothu, Rima Kallingal and Swetha Menon. The film uses the hyperlink cinema format as its narrative structure, a technique first used by Satyajit Ray in his film Kanchenjungha (1962). City of God is not a remake and shares no resemblance to the 2002 Brazilian film of the same name, although both use non-linear narrative structure. The film was subsequently dubbed and released in Hindi under the same name by Wide Angle Media in 2014. City of God was one of the first among the "Malayalam New Wave" films, although the trend was just becoming recognised during 2011. Despite getting critical acclaim, the film was an average venture at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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