Review of The Constant Gardener (2005) by Welingtons. — 21 Oct 2005

Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles is on the top of the world of cinema industry. He proves with this flick all his talent, originality and social conscience. He took a commercial screenplay and transformed it in a nervous and brethtaking trip through Africa.

I had to see it twice in a cinema in São Paulo, Brasil, to get all the informations and characters motivation to immerse into the history. The editing and cinematography are superb, the actors and actress are perfect.

Rachell Weizz give the best female performance I saw this year. She shines in every frames. The chemistry between she and Ralph Fiennes rules the movie. Fiennes is also very good. It's a love story, a thriller and a social comment about our world.

Unfortunatelly money rules the wold and the government is in their hands (just think in the USA and the war against Iraque, the petrol, the gas, the relation between Bush and the gas corporation. How many had to die for economica profits?).

We can imagine that Le Carre and Meirelles are exagerating but if we start think about what is happening maybe they are not. It's an advice to the world: how we (the society, government and corporations) are treating (baddly) the people who lives in poor areas.

Remarkable work.