Rotten
The appearance of circus performers in any film not by Fellini usually bodes ill, and it does so here.
Hank Sartin, Chicago Reader
Behind the Sun
2001 · 1h 35m · PG-13
Drama, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Walter Salles
Overview
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son's death. He is torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty and rebelling against it, urged by his younger brother Pacu. That's when a tiny travelling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Director and cast
- Walter Salles Director
- José Dumont as Father
- Rodrigo Santoro as Tonho
- Rita Assemany as Mother
- Ravi Ramos Lacerda as Pacu
- Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as Salustiano
- Flavia Marco Antonio as Clara
- Everaldo Pontes as Old Blind Man (as Everaldo De Souza Pontes)
- Caio Junqueira as Inácio
- Mariana Loureiro as Widow
- Servílio de Holanda as Isaías
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
74%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A bleak, beautiful cinematic fable driven by the brutal logic of blood feuds and transformed by an overpowering sense of wonder.
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Salles' movie taps into matters that are at once ancient and mythical and, needless to say, headline-fresh.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
Rotten
Salles starts with the loudly trumpeted theme, then tacks on a slim plot to justify the clamour.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Rotten
A lovely journey, but it's like a picture book whose text is merely incidental.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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