(Rated TBD, 90 mins.) Reuniting “Central Station” director Walter Salles and producer Arthur Cohn to bring us the story of a young man, Tonho (Rodrigo Santoro) living in Brazil in 1910 with his father and brothers working a sugar cane harvest. Much like the “Hatfield’s and the McCoys” the families rivals live nearby. Life thus far has been a series of an ‘eye for an eye’; you kill my son, I’ll kill yours. After the death of his older brother Inacio (Caio Junqueira),Tonho knows if he commits the crime, his life will be divided in two: the 20 years he has already lived and the few days he has left to live, before the other family avenges their son’s death. Torn between fulfilling his ancestral duty, rebelling against it his is urged by his younger brother Pacu (Ravi Ramos Lacerda), whose life is changed beyond their tiny world the day the traveling circus comes to town. With it, comes the beautiful Clara (Flavia Marco Antonio) and suddenly Tonho knows a new emotion: Love. While the story focuses on discovering the importance of what it means to really live, it’s slow pace doesn’t seem quite lively enough to a sophisticated blow-em up, bang ’em up driven American audience. And, as always, sub-titles can be annoying.
