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10 April 2012
High concept

Plot Brazil, 1910 - in an area so remote it's 'behind the sun', a long-running vendetta sparked off by a land ownership squabble finally comes to an unexpected and bloody climax.

Getting shirty As each son of the rival sugarcane-farming clans is killed, his shirt is hung outside to dry. When the blood on it has turned yellow, the cycle resumes with the next son.

First person singular The story is narrated by the younger brother of Tonho, the most recent brother to become drafted into the vendetta. Tonho's brother, known simply as Kid, has not been named by his parents. Why bother, he probably won't be here. It falls to the family's youngest child to dream the impossible: reconciliation and an end to the killing.

First class travel Shot in the remote area of Bahia, Brazil, the film is Walter Salles's follow-up to Central Station, which won a raft of awards (a Bafta and Golden Globe among them). Behind The Sun is already winning plaudits, both for Salles and for photographer Walter Carvalho, who also lent Central Station its arty beauty.

Verdicts 'Provides a window into a radically different time and place' - Today. 'A dreary tragedy whose relevance cannot compensate for lack of gripping protagonists' - Newsday.

Internet Movie Database rating 6.5/10.

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