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At Home in a War Zone

In classic exploitation flick fashion, “Elite Squad,” a relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil — and the baffling winner of this year's top prize at the Berlin Film Festival — wants to have its grinding violence and sanctimony too. The director is the promising José Padilha, here belly-flopping into fiction after soaring high in “Bus 174,” the powerful 2002 documentary he made with Felipe Lacerda about a desperate hijacking by a Rio slum dweller. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (1726 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 19 Settembre 2008