Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers

Director: William A. Seiter

Summary: Ginger plays a mysterious countess and Fred a band leader in this exuberant musical set in Paris. Adapted from the Broadway hit by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach with songs 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes' and 'Lovely to Look At.' Lucille Ball has a cameo role in the fashion show sequence. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ('Lovely to Look At').

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Like cinematic dynamite, City of Godlights a fuse under its squalid Brazilian ghetto, and we're a captive audience to its violent explosion. The titular favelais home to a seething army of impoverished children who grow, over the film's ambitious 20-year time frame, into cut-throat killers, drug lords and feral survivors. In the vortex of this maelstrom is L'il Z (Leandro Firmino da Hora--like most of the cast, a non-professional actor), self-appointed king of the dealers, determined to eliminate all competition at the expense of his corrupted soul. With enough visual vitality and provocative substance to spark heated debate (and box-office gold) in Brazil, codirectors Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund tackle their subject head on, creating a portrait of youthful anarchy so appalling--and so authentically immediate--that City of Godprompted reforms in socioeconomic policy. It's a bracing feat of stylistic audacity, borrowing from a dozen other films to form its own unique identity. You'll flinch, but you can't look away. --Jeff Shannon

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1935
Release Date:	November 3, 2008
Runtime:	106 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O R P 004 D V D
Keywords:	Music, English, Films, Roberta, Performing, Musicals, Arts
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts