User Reviews

It only gets some notoriety these days since a veteran filmmaker was the one conducting this piece, plus it's an amazing presentation on celluloid with a such high quality for the 1980's that it puts to shame many feature films made at the time. A "propaganda" in a way but manageable to see. It shows the numbers from mayor Mário Covas when it comes to show his investments on schools, hospitals, infrastructure, building bus terminals, new streets and creating more cultural spaces which all greatly improved the quality of life from the general population. Many administration present those things at the end of the year or whatever they want, but this looked so interestingly beautiful, and since I know many of the place featured we can know that the city of São Paulo was lacking in many things and conquered a great lot at the period, the transition from military regime to democracy. Compared to similar advertising pieces made in future years this looks pretty impressive, a little larger than life and the poetic narration makes it all more compelling. Too bad that some bits from the conclusion are missing, not sure if there's a full version available. 8/10.