Music: Sound & Vision Music is a highlight of this year’s Festival do Rio, both amongst the Brazilian and international selections,
Music in some form or another will feature in nearly every one of the over 200 films screening during Festival do Brazil. It is no surprise, therefore, that in a country as musical as Brazil that music is very much a highlight again of this year’s program, both amongst the Brazilian and international selections, and amongst both features and documentaries.
Among Brazilian productions are documentaries focusing on Beth Carvalho (“Andança - Os Encontros E as Memorias de Beth Carvalho”); Belchior (“Belchior - Apenas Um Coração Selvagem); Elis Regina and Tom Jobim (“Elis & Tom: Só Tinha de Ser Com Voce”); Elton Medeiros (“Elton Medeiros - O Sol Nascera”); Fausto Fawcett (“Fausto Fawcett na Cabeça”); Miucha (“Miucha, A Voz da Bossa Nova”); Tim Maia (“Vale Tudo com Tim Maia”) plus the story of the five widows of leading sambistas and their influences (De Voce Fiz Meu Samba”) and a look at the current Brazilian punk scene and its relevance today (“Era Punk!”).
Two of the biggest stars of sertaneja music, Brazil’s equivalent to country and western, Zezé Di Camargo and Luciano, are the inspiration behind the late Brena Silveira’s box office titan, “2 Filhos de Francisco”, which honours the recent passing of the director with a special outdoor screening on Copacabana Beach on 14 October.
There is also a selection of ten previous Brazilian documentaries with diverse musical themes screening for free under the banner of “Música Cinematographia Brasileira” at the Biblioteca Parque Estadual in Av President Vargas in the Centre of Rio.
Highlights in the international selection include “Cesária Évora” by Ana Sofia Fonseca; “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, and not forgetting the memorable musical soundtrack to Stephan Elliot’s “The Adventures of Priscilla - Queen of the Desert” that features many disco era classics known the world over.
Live music to support screenings also features with the duo SZ performing at the Cine Odeon as “Soy Cuba” from 1964 and “A l’Assault de la Tour Eiffel from 1947 screened. A screening made possible by the support of Aliança Francesa. While the French Consulate and Goethe-Institute have made possible the performance on 15 October by Lan Lanh and Armando Macedo during the screening of a number of shorts at Estação NET Botafogo that have been curated by Marcos Magalhães.
And it is a musician, one Harry Styles, who in his acting debut has done no harm to the demand for tickets to see Michael Grandage’s “My Policeman” on the big screen before being available in November on Prime Video.
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