Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)

ridiculous rating

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This film show us the story of Heitor Villa Lobos,a man who loved music, his country and being Brazilian. From all his trouble and difficulties to live for his passion,the music, to how he became the best known classical composer born in South America.''Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão'' has an incredible cast, with many famous Brazillian actors and actresses, like Antônio Fagundes, Marcos Palmeira,Letícia Spiller,Ana Beatriz Nogueira,Marieta Severo,José Wilker and so on. I liked this movie very much, showing the life of the great musician and composer Heitor Villa Lobos, very respected here in Brazil and I believe in other parts of the world as well. Villa Lobos wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works, and many of his work we can study in the music schools here in Brazil. In Villa-Lobos's youth, Brazil underwent social revolution and modernization, overthrowing its emperor Pedro II in 1889, and abolishing slavery. That's why previously, only European music had been the dominant influence, and why Villa Lobos is considered to be a modernist: his music has the influence of Brazil's indigenous cultural diversity, and is based on Portuguese, African and Brazillian elements. He was a patriot, in love with his country and culture. That's why he never really left Brazil, and felt offended when people asked him to lie about his origins.I recommend for people who enjoy music, to listen to the ''Bachianas brasileiras'',a series of nine suites for various combinations of instruments and voices. For everyone who is interested in a good movie, as well as an interesting biography, this movie is an excellent choice to watch.

The Only Good Thing About this movie, really, is it's soundtrack. Oh, yes, and Jose Wilker's acting. The rest is amazingly bad. Bad directing, bad script, and, most of all, horrible acting. Marcos Palmeiras is specially bad at depicting such a great musician. It's very disappointing that the life of such a man fell in such incompetent hands to be depicted. Don't take this as an example of brazilian cinema.

This movie is very interesting, Villa Lobos was a great musician, and the movie shows his life, the actors made a very good work in this movie, i liked their interpetration, Antonio Fagundes, Leticia Spiller and Jose Wilker are great actors...i recommend this movie, a musician which i didn't know his life...a life of passions...bye