Guardian: Phew! It really was all right on the night. No thats not fair. It was much better than all right. Ive been going back and forth to Brazil for the past five years and I was watching the opening ceremony with bated breath.
Congratulations to the remarkable film director, Fernando Meirelles, probably best known for the Oscar-nominated film, City of God, set in Rios slums. He pulled off something quite remarkable with this spectacular show, on a budget that seemed to shrink every day. It combined...