Faroeste Caboclo (2013)

Directed by

René Sampaio

Genre

drama film

Country

Brazil

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 193 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man from the countryside moves to Brasília and gets caught up in crime and a passionate love affair with a woman from a higher social class. Their relationship leads to devastating consequences as he struggles against the violence and inequality around him.

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What happens

Brazilian Western (Portuguese: Faroeste Caboclo) is a 2013 Brazilian crime drama film directed and produced by René Sampaio, starring Fabrício Boliveira, Isis Valverde and César Troncoso. It is based on the popular 9-minutes-long Brazilian song "Faroeste Caboclo", released by Brazilian rock band Legião Urbana in their 1987 Que País É Este album. Shootings for the film took place primarily in the Brazilian Central-West region, in Cidade Ocidental, Goiás. The film was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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