The 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 20 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 traveling circus passes through the... (Full plot summary below)
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The 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 20 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 traveling circus passes through the vast badlands where Tonho's family lives.
Leave your thoughts about Behind the Sun.
| L.A. WeeklyErnest HardyThat tragedy looms heavily in Behind the Sun only makes its life-affirming moments -- resonate more deeply and powerfully in a film that is one of the year's best. |
| New TimesLuke Y. ThompsonBeautiful to watch and universal in theme by any name. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffA sumptuously filmed parable on the futility of violence. |
| Nitrate OnlineElias SavadaBehind the Sun is a glorious revelation....critics-and audiences-will welcome this to their top ten lists. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerIt's all so visceral that it overwhelms the near-abstract story and smothers what passes for characters. |
| San Jose Mercury NewsBruce NewmanSalles ... has found the beauty not only in this terrible place, but in a story by novelist Ismail Kadaré that originally was set in Albania. |
| Film Journal InternationalEric MonderTurns a potentially interesting story into, well, refined sugar. |
| NewsdayJan StuartA dreary Aristotelian tragedy whose contemporary geopolitical relevance cannot compensate for the lack of gripping protagonists. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasCarvalho's superb cinematography, Antonio Pinto's score and a dedicated cast and crew admirably sustain this poetic and uncompromising film. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaA compelling existential tableau: sweating bodies, creaking mills turned by numbed oxen, people facing the daily and seasonal cycles of life with little hope of breaking free. Behind the Sun is forceful stuff. |
