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...plot terms Spider Woman, directed by Brazilian filmmaker Hector Babenco (Pixote), is a movie about the relationship between two men, a homosexual and a political revolutionary, thrown together in a prison cell in some unnamed South American country...
...Babenco (adapting Manuel Puig's novel) attempts more than a sensitive study about the burgeoning of one off-beat friendship. He sets his sights on the giddy interplay between fantasy and fact, with the premise that escapism is indispensable to a psychologically sound existence...
PIXOTE Directed by Hector Babenco Screenplay by Hector Babenco and Jorge Duran OVER THE EDGE Directed by Jonathan Kaplan Screenplay by Charlie Haas and Tim Hunter THE DARK END OF THE STREET Directed and Written by Jan Egleson
Three recent films take a different approach. For the dead-end kids at the center of each film, morality is a gray area; only their lives are black and blue. Hector Babenco's Pixote (Portuguese slang for peewee) is an eleven-year-old São Paulo waif living his long days in a kind of Dotheboys Hall for juvenile offenders. In another school, pleasing the older boys might mean carrying the water bucket; here it involves stashing dope, spearheading escapes and, above all, keeping his big dark eyes open and his mouth shut. The film is canny enough...
...Babenco's criticism of the Brazilian regime is potent. Those in positions of authority in Pixote from warden to minister, are interested only in covering up their own sins, never in serving the government. Although Pixote is adapted from a book, under Babenco's direction the film seems so realistic that it appears to have no props and no actors...