pixotereview

A deeply disturbing and heartbreaking neo-realist film, about an abandoned, unwanted 10 year old living first in a reformatory, and then on Brazil's mean ...

Pixote is an amazing cinematic social document made with fury and passion by an uncompromising director. There has never been another film that approaches its ...

User reviews58 ... The violent death of Fernando Ramos Da Silva only eight years after the completion of this film, only adds to the poignancy of dierector ...

10-year-old Pixote endures torture, degradation, and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of its members are murdered by policemen who ...

1981年5月5日 — Da Silva and Miss Pera are splendid. ''Pixote'' is not for the weak of stomach. A lot of the details are tough to take, but it is neither ...

Pixote is the one of most powerful, shocking, and moving motion picture to come from Brazil. It's about the lives of street kids on the streets of Sao Paulo ...

2020年9月30日 — The film is graphic in its representation of physical and sexual violence. Our ten-year-old hero manages to escape the worst of the abuses in ...

REVIEW; READER REVIEWS. Pixote: the Law of the Weakest (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco). (No longer in theaters). Rating: No Rating; Director: Hector Babenco Cast ...

Homeless adolescent Pixote (Fernando Ramos Da Silva) finds himself thrown into a juvenile prison in a roundup of São Paulo's street children.

2004年9月12日 — Fathered by strangers, abandoned by their mothers, thrown away by society, the children of Pixote live by their wits on the cruel streets ...