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GreenCine Daily - ”Twelve years after co-directing Foreign Land, filmmakers Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas have returned to update their portrait of urban Brazil, which they left in the economic throes of president Fernando Collor,” writes Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter.
“Linha de passe is a far more successful film, both as a drama and in depicting the reality of growing up poor without no future in sight…. Comparisons to Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers are inevitable, but without name actors in the cast, this is not going to be as easy a commercial ride as Salles’ cultish The Motorcycle Diaries.”
In Screen Daily, Jonathan Romney finds in the film “a down-to-earth alternative to the more romantic and stylistically flashy films (City of God, Lower City, Berlin winner Elite Squad) with which Brazilian cinema has been identified lately. Very much in the mode of Salles’ 1998 breakthrough Central Station, Linha de Passe offers a compelling cast and a narrative fail-safe - the travails of a tough mum and her unruly brood - that should give it modest but significant international appeal.”… [Full Story]
