Tropicália

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08/19/2020 I love Bossa Nova music. I really hadn't followed or even known anything about the politics of the Tropicalia movement of the 60s, which I just thought was a musical genre. It was really so much more than that. It was a revolution, a movement, and in the mid-60s during a dramatic time in the Brazilian government, there was extraordinary censorship, and the main players in the Tropicalia movement really had to fight for creative freedom…They were thought to be threats. Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil among others were arrested and put in jail, exiled to London – really for nothing other than the government not liking what they were singing about. I learned all of this from the doc and then went down my own wormhole reading more about it. This film covers all of this, and has amazing footage from the time…performances, lots of amazing Os Mutantes footage and interviews, Tom Ze, life in Bahia, protests, etc. It was an interesting view although maybe not the most informative as I was a little lost in the beginning. I'll give this ‪7/10‬ *PS: I'm awarding it "Best title sequences"…..amazing graphic work… See more 08/27/2015 A must-see for fans of the too-short-lived Brazilian art movement. Great performance footage of Veloso, Gil, Os Mutantes--and a spectacular explanatory explosion by Tom Ze. See more 01/31/2013 Interesting documentary on the Brazilian tropicalia movement in music (and other arts) a combination of folk art and psychedelia that arose in the 60s. See more 11/14/2012 An exciting documentary subject, but Machado tries too hard to claim authorship of 90 minutes of archive footage. An exhausting watch, but the soundtrack is great, of course. http://366movies.com/2012/11/14/303tropicalia/ See more 10/17/2012 In 1967 the art in Brazil ceased to be an bourgeois' instrument of intellectual domain to assume a form of sensory manifestation. It was the Tropicalista movement happening. And this documentary is not a defining exercise, but an effervescence of rare images, sounds, music and testimonies that seek to make the viewer feel what was (or is) the Tropicalismo. And so is victorious. With a research impeccable, they bring to the screen materials previously unknown, unpublished. A must see movie for anyone who call himself Brazilian. See more Read all reviews

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