The fictional encounter in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (in the 30s) between popular songwriter Lamartine Babo and inconoclast poet and playwright Oswald de Andrade.
Acting
Veloso's uncanny channeling of Babo's manic charisma.
Direction
Bressane's 16mm intimacy—feels like you stumbled onto a private party.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes intellectual pretension into comedy.
Director
Júlio Bressane
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lamartine Babo actually wrote the anthem for every major Brazilian football club—imagine one guy composing 'Sweet Caroline' for the Yankees AND 'You'll Never Walk Alone' for Liverpool.
Bressane shot this in 1983 during Brazil's military dictatorship, making its celebration of anarchic modernist artists a quiet act of political resistance disguised as period pastiche.
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