Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.... (Full plot summary below)
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Lifelong friends Deco and Naldinho, who own a small steaming boat in Bahia, meet strip-dancer Karinna. Both men fall for her and their friendship is deeply shattered.
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| University City ReviewKam WilliamsA gritty, Brazilian drama which called for Alice Braga to be naked and in heat nearly non-stop, whether in a bed with a boyfriend or one of her assortedy Johns. |
| Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeIt's unlikely that even the most sophisticated or jaded of festival audiences will kindly endure the onslaught of viciousness on display. |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottThe movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but Ms. Braga almost makes it work. |
| Film Journal InternationalDoris ToumarkineThe meager plot is no more than a clothesline upon which to hang some heated sex scenes and ugly violence. |
| Time OutDave CalhounLower City is essentially an intimate, well-observed, compassionate film about what happens when lust gets in the way of friendship. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawAll three principals give gutsy, intuitive performances; they generate a juice of pure sexual need and [director Sergio] Machado's camera drinks it dry. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerEnjoyable drama that is like a cross between City of God and Y Tu Mama Tambien, with lashings of sex and violence and even the odd bit of ****-fighting thrown in. |
| BBC.comTom DawsonMachado cleverly undercuts audience expectations and refuses to make moral judgements about the behaviour of the threesome, choosing instead to reveal their inner vulnerability and celebrate their capacity for defiant survival. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThe impressive first feature by Sergio Machado, a one-time assistant to Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries"), is a trip through a grungy world of crime, sex and cockfights. |
| Washington PostStephen HunterLower City is sexy, but in a nice, dirty way. Everyone in it is deliciously low and sleazy, and so underdressed in the blazing heat that they are just dying to strip. |
