Lower City’s toxic love triangle peers into the murky world of three young adults, muddling their way through life on the underside of Salvador, Bahia, who are wildly in love with each other; increasingly willing to betray each other; and completely unable to walk away from each other.
Through the eyes of an academic on the run, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed, quixotic opus honours the irreplaceable, ordinary lives and stories that a corrupt dictatorship and its enforcers snuff out – and the struggle to hold onto integrity, memory and life itself.
One of the earliest feature films from Walter Salles (I’m Still Here), this is a dreamy, parched meditation on the wasteful futility of revenge.
