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City of Men
By chris dalby | July 10, 2008
I went to a screening of City of Men tonight near Googe St in London, organised by Mike Atherton and Dan Light.
I’ve never to been to a screening before, so part of me was going out of curiousity. I hadn’t heard anything about City of Men before I saw the film tonight, which according to wikipedia:
It is often cited as a ‘spin-off‘ of the film; City of Men is a less violent and more light-hearted affair with dramedy elements (the film adaptation is darker, sharing its roots of City of God). However, the two do share some common aspects: the directors, some of the actors, and the setting of the Brazilian favela (slum) with its background of gangsters and poverty.
City of Men, or Cidade dos Homens in Portuguese, is a subtitled film and focusses on the friendship between 2 characters caught up in the daily life of living in the favela.
I love watching subtitled films. I always try and match the words to the sounds and try and work out whether the words don’t match the spoken dialogue. I find it also focusses my attention more on the film too. It takes more thought to watch a subtitled film.
I enjoyed watching City of Men. I thought the camerwork and imagery was stunning, the characters convincing and the scenario mind boggling.
It was also great to see the bloggers that went along. Here’s a few of them in a video I shot just before we went in.
Thanks for inviting me along to the screening Dan and Mike, looking forward to the next one.
March 4th, 2009 at 12:37 am
[...] in Chiswick, London. This is the second screening I have been to like this, the first was City of Men, last year. Attendees were invited via twitter and I knew the assembled company would be good, so [...]