How Angels are Born
1996, NR, 96 min.
Directed by Murilo Salles, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Priscila Assum, Jorge Duran, Aguinaldo Silva, Nelson Nadotti, Larry Pine, Silivio Guindane.

This gritty story is a thriller that focuses on the fates of children born into Rio’s devastating poverty and crime. A young teenage girl from a shantytown triesto protect her hapless husband, who is a member of a drug-trafficking ring. A foolish murder leads to a kidnapping, and from there to real tragedy.

This article appears in September 24 • 1999.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.