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Maria Bethania (2005)

Maria Bethania

Film overview :
Director : Georges Gachot
Feature film, Documentary, Music
Production language : Portuguese
Nationality : Minority French (France, Switzerland)
French release : 3/1/06
Runtime : 1h 22mn
Current status : Released
Official website : www.gachot.ch/gachot_bethania_cine.html
Associate production company : Idéale Audience
French distribution : Les Films du Paradoxe
Synopsis
The “Greta Garbo of Rio,” Maria Bethânia is the counter-culture’s muse, diva, and a cult figure of Brazilian music. She took on the role of heiress to an ancient, black tradition of Brazilian music. “Maria has a unique nature,” her older brother, Caetano Veloso, explains. Dramatic temperament not at all present in the bossa-nova was required for this kind of music. She therefore sang sambas dating from before the bossa-nova, and new songs that changed the samba and that spoke of great, passionate love or rural life in the Nordeste.
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