Rating of
3/4
Blondes have more fun
Bribaba - wrote on 05/03/11
Man of the Year from Brazil, mines the same territory as City of God, but any comparison with that extraordinary work would be unfavourable. Jose's Fonseca's film is a powerful and violent story of a moody chancer whose life is transformed when he dyes his hair blonde for a bet. On the face of it, it's an unlikely premise and yet when seen in the machismo context of the Rio barrios, it acquires a logic and power all of its own. The title has a bitter irony to it, and not just because the real stars of the film are the two women in the life of this homen d' anno: Claudia Abreu and Natalia Lage.
