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The best moments feature Uerê's children themselves.
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Universally embraceable subject matter, coupled with helmer's sterling rep as benevolent booster of humanistic pioneers.
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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
De Mello's dedication is inspiring enough to speak for itself.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It would be foolish for a middle-class do-gooder confronting homeless children on the streets of Rio de Janeiro to expect conventional morality to have any meaning to them at all. That's one of the blunt, no-nonsense observations of Yvonne Bezarra de Mello, the Brazilian human rights activist profiled in Monika Treut's hard-headed documentary.
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Heartbreaking.