SPLA : Portal to cultural diversity
Moz'Art

All the Invisible Children

  • Enfants invisibles (Les)
Genre : Social
Type : Fiction
Original title : Take 7 [Italy] (working title) | Crianças Invisíveis [Brazil] | Alle Kinder dieser Welt [Germany] | Isten bárányai [Hungary] | Niños de Nadie [Mexico]
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2005
Format : Feature
Running time : 124 (in minutes)

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

The project "All the Invisible Children" has the intention to disclose through seven short stories, the terrible situation, with the lost of innocence and lack of perspective of abused children in some countries in the Twentieth-First Century through the eyes of seven directors.

1) "Tanza": Mehdi Chafer shows a boy called Tanza in an undefined country in Africa fighting in a civil war with machine gun and explosives, and dreaming on having his home and going to school.

2) "Uros": Emir Kusturica shows a gypsy boy called Uros in his last day in a juvenile prison in Serbia-Montenegro without any other perspective but returning to the place.

3) "Jesus Children of America": Spike Lee shows a HIV positive girl called Blanca, daughter of junkies' parents with Aids and the cruelty of her schoolmates in school in the best episode of this film.

4) "Bilu and João": Kátia Lund gives an optimistic approach of two homeless children that fight to survive working on the streets, collecting beer and soda tins and paper to sell in a junkyard, and transporting shops in street fairs.

5) "Jonathan": Jordan and Ridley Scott show a photographer correspondent of war in pain for his past experiences.

6) "Ciro": Stefano Veneruso shows a young boy in Naples that pickpockets to survive.

7) "Song Son and Little Cat": John Woo shows a beautiful, but shallow tale of fantasy, with a homeless orphan and a spoiled wealthy girl.

Therefore, in spite of the good intention of the producers of "All the Invisible Children", the result is irregular, flawed and only reasonable. My (global) vote is six.
Claudio Carvalho de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (imdb.com)

Articles

1 files

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Iverca