L'homme à abattre (Cabre Marcado Para Morrer)

In some strange and fascinating way, Eduardo Coutinho's Cabra Marcado Para Morrer, released ten years before Lone Star (text below), has so much in common with Sayle's film, while being a completely different film. A 20-30 year period separates past and present in both films. The implications of one single incident and how it affects lives into the future are mind boggling. The film was initially shot in 1964 as a narrative fiction film, the shoot interrupted by the military regime in Brazil. 20 years later, Coutinho, one of Brazil's greatest filmmakers, went back to the northeastern region where he originally shot his film to show, now as a documentary, what happened to the one family he knew and how they were affected by politically motivated violence. The central character, a woman named Elizabeth Teixeira, towers head and shoulders above everyone else as the face of dignity under the weight of injustice.