Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Posted on Monday, November 28

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa De Elite II—O inimigo Agora é Outro)
with Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos
2010, José Padilha, Brazil, 116 min., 35 mm
Chicago Premiere

“Stunning…wildly entertaining.”—Robert Koehler, Variety

“A thumping modern policier with a social-conscience edge.”—Trevor Johnston, Time Out London

One of the hottest directors on the international scene is Brazil’s Padilha, whose exciting yet thoroughly intelligent approach to action-based drama has garnered awards and critical acclaim, not to mention box-office success. No need to have seen his earlier international hit Elite Squad to take this stand-alone sequel’s wild ride into the heart of double-crossing police corruption in the slums of Rio. A bungled mission to stop a prison riot results in police captain Nascimento taking the fall, and, to his surprise, getting kicked upstairs. Mounting a citywide campaign against crime and the drug trade using the department’s elite SWAT team as a battering ram, he makes the dangerous discovery that the top cops are the problem rather than the solution. In Portuguese with English subtitles.

Friday, December 2 through Thursday, December 8
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$11/General Admission; $7/Students (with I.D.); $6/Film Center Members

Gene Siskel Film Center
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