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Behind the Sun
Directed by
Walter Salles
PG-13
2001
1h 35m
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7.3
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When ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother, a young man questions the tradition of violence between two rival families.
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Cast of Behind the Sun
Rodrigo Santoro
Tonho
José Dumont
Pai
Rita Assemany
Mãe
Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos
Salustiano
Ravi Ramos Lacerda
Pacu
Flavia Marco Antonio
Clara
Everaldo Pontes
Velho Cego
Caio Junqueira
Inácio
Wagner Moura
Matheus
Othon Bastos
Mr. Lourenço
Mariana Loureiro
Widow
Servílio de Holanda
Isaías
Gero Camilo
Reginaldo
Vinícius de Oliveira
Membro da Família Ferreira
Soia Lira
Membro da Família Ferreira
Socorro Nobre
Membro da Família Ferreira
Walter Salles
Director / Screenplay
Sérgio Machado
Screenplay / Casting
Karim Aïnouz
Screenplay
Ismail Kadare
Novel
Behind the Sun Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
The appearance of circus performers in any film not by Fellini usually bodes ill, and it does so here.
Film Threat
Chris Barsanti
a family saga told with all the muscle of the best Sergio Leone western.
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
A bleak, beautiful cinematic fable driven by the brutal logic of blood feuds and transformed by an overpowering sense of wonder.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A lovely journey, but it's like a picture book whose text is merely incidental.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Salles is a fine director with the ability to invest moments with a sense of tragedy and inexorable fate.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
Salles here gives a story of inter-familial feuding and violence the kind of resonance that readily invites a leap to wider implications.
Boston Globe
Renee Graham
Poignant and wrenching.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
After a certain point, no one is right and no one is wrong, both sides have boundless grievances, and it's the audience that wants to run away with the circus.
San Jose Mercury News
Bruce Newman
Salles ... has found the beauty not only in this terrible place, but in a story by novelist Ismail Kadar that originally was set in Albania.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Salles ... has crafted a compelling existential tableau.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A rewarding parable on the futility of revenge and the redemptive power of self-sacrificing love.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
You're always aware ... that you're watching a quaintly middle-class, museum-poster notion of an 'elemental' peasant fable.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
A dreary Aristotelian tragedy whose contemporary geopolitical relevance cannot compensate for the lack of gripping protagonists.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
Salles has the confidence of a storyteller too entranced by his tale to worry about the resistance of his audience, which he thus effortlessly overcomes.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A gorgeously photographed, sun-baked fable about a rural vendetta.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The trajectory is grimly inevitable, and yet its final descent still manages to startle.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Hunter
A worthy but somewhat less-than-satisfying follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Central Station.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Provides a window into a radically different time and place.
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