Synopsis
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
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Cast
- Yvonne Bezerra de MelloHerself
- Sandro do NascimentoHimself
- Rodrigo PimentelHimself
- Luiz Eduardo SoaresHimself
Recommendations
- 100
Village Voice
Tense, engrossing, and superbly structured, Bus 174 is not just unforgettable drama but a skillfully developed argument. - 90
The A.V. Club
Edited with an impeccable sense of timing and rhythm, with each new revelation and insight planted at just the right moment, Bus 174 examines an already gripping story from a moving and untold perspective. - 88
New York Daily News
It is to Padilha's enormous credit that he steadfastly kicks aside our own culturally imposed frames of reference, insisting that we see the truth, and the humanity, within this very real story. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
Although it shares a bitter interest in slum desperation with last year's Brazilian-underbelly docudrama ''City of God,'' Bus 174 pulls ahead, I think, by not confusing cinematic pizzazz with the content of misery. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
This gripping Brazilian documentary shows a bus hijacking that spirals out of control because of police incompetence. - 80
The New York Times
So wrenching and absorbing that you can easily lose sight of the sophistication of its techniques. - 75
New York Post
The drivel they call "reality TV" pales in comparison with the gripping big-screen documentary Bus 174. - 70
Chicago Reader
Padilha allows neither easy answers nor ironic commentary, producing on both sides of the conflict a world of inconsolable grief.
