Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco

1980
TV-MA
2h 8m

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La vie d'un garçon dans les rues de São Paulo, impliqué dans la vie criminelle, la prostitution et la drogue.La vie d'un garçon dans les rues de São Paulo, impliqué dans la vie criminelle, la prostitution et la drogue.La vie d'un garçon dans les rues de São Paulo, impliqué dans la vie criminelle, la prostitution et la drogue.

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7,9/10

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Prix
- 10 victoires et 4 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The film's star, Fernando Ramos da Silva, who plays a young street criminal, actually was a street criminal before he made this film. After completing it, he took up the criminal life again, and was killed in Brazil in 1987 in an alleged shootout with police. While police reports claim that da Silva was resisting arrest, there are conflicting reports from eyewitnesses, who claim da Silva was unarmed. Furthermore, a forensic examination showed that he had been shot while lying on the ground. Both his wife and mother called the shooting "a police execution." The story of Fernando Ramos da Silva is depicted in the biographical film Quem Matou Pixote? (1996).

Autres versions
All UK versions were cut by 27 secs under the 1978 Protection of Children Act. The scene removed was a panning shot showing Pixote on a bed alongside a couple having sex.

Connexions
Featured in Sneak Previews: Pixote, Ragtime, Buddy Buddy, Absence of Malice (1981)

Bandes originales
Could It Be Magic

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9/10

Growing up way before their time

When one thinks of the Brazilian cinema it is this film Pixote which comes to mind. Hector Babenco gives us one uncompromising and brutal look at the lives of the street boys in Brazil's largest city Sao Paulo. One only hopes that it is 35 years since Pixote was released and the hope is things have improved for these kids who have to grow up way before their time.

The films centers on the title character played by a young actor who himself never made it out of the slums. Babenco used real street kid Fernando Ramos DaSilva as the ten year old Pixote who was killed at the age of 19 in a homicide that still raises questions. One thing this film does show is that Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence didn't make it to Brazil, especially for the young.

We see things in Pixote that you would never see in American cinema portrayed even now. Rape in a juvenile detention center is the established norm here, especially when it involves Jorge Juliao, a young cross dressing street kid. When the slightly older Gilberto Moura uses sex to assert authority over Juliao it's both frightening and touching. Poor Juliao has one rotten opinion of his own self worth from his experience. One gets the impression that home wasn't all that much better. But these things were being shown way before America even knew there were transgender issues. Juliao even more than DaSilva is who you remember from Pixote.

35 years later Pixote is a powerful and disturbing film.