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Once Upon A Time...

Dir: Breno Silveira. Brazil. 2008. 117 mins.A Romeo And Juliet tale about the doomed love between a Rio favela boy and a rich girl from Ipanema, Once Upon A Time (Era Uma Vez...) is a glossier, sudsier take on crime and poverty in the favelas than we have seenin films like City Of God, City Of Men and

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