Fevereiros (2017) User Reviews

Brazilian Culture and mighty Bethânia

[guisreis · 8/10 · 20 February 2021]

Great Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia was honored by historic samba school Mangueira. While showing that, through many interviews (particularly with Bethania herself and, secondly, with her brother and also a giant from Brazilian music Caetano Veloso, but not only), filmmaker Marcio Debellian was able to discuss deeply important traits of Brazilian culture: syncretic religiousness (Candomblé, Catholic, Candomblé de Caboclo), religious festivities in Bahia, the relations between African-based religion and carnival and samba in Rio de Janeiro (with a past of state repression, in contrast to its celebration specifically during samba school parade nowadays). Beautiful, nice to the eyes and ears, moving. Maria Bethânia is a lovely and powerful entity of light and sound.

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[RosanaBotafogo · 8/10 · 25 August 2021]

I tend to be very boring with documentaries, I usually just give myself to the historical, the biographical, it depends, but as it was freely available at "Cinema #emcasacomsesc", and it was national (I value it) and about a talented Bahian woman, I decided to give it a try, beautiful, colorful, sincere, musically carnival and with a lot of drumming, it will probably please fans a lot, lay people like me, a musical pastime and I stuck to the little history that came from the stories, Mãe Menininha... s2...