Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
"Villa-Lobos - Uma Vida de Paixão" (original title)

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his ... See full summary »

Director:

Zelito Viana

Writer:

Joaquim Assis

Stars:

Antônio Fagundes, Marcos Palmeira, Letícia Spiller

2 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Antônio Fagundes	...	Heitor Villa-Lobos
Marcos Palmeira	...	Young Heitor Villa-Lobos
Letícia Spiller	...	Mindinha
Ana Beatriz Nogueira	...	Lucília
José Wilker	...	Donizetti
Marieta Severo	...	Noemia
Othon Bastos	...	Raul
Emílio de Melo	...	Arthur Rubinstein
Antonio Pitanga	...	Joaquim
André Ricardo	...	Heitor Villa-Lobos as a child
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Antonio Abujamra	...	Director of Theatro Municipal
Milton Gonçalves	...	Saxophonist (voice)
Lucinha Lins	...	Villa-Lobo's aunt
Laura Lustosa
Paulo Moura	...	Saxophonist

Storyline

The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian. This man fought to be loyal to himself. His music is a transparent portrait of his genius, intuition, freedom, adventure and passion for Brazil. The story shows aging Villa-Lobos going to a gala concert in the Theatre of Rio de Janeiro for a tribute in his honor. This is the last time he is coming out of his house alive. His looks are feverish and attentive. Different scenes of the concert will bring back memories of his life. Villa-Lobos suffers a great many ordeals: the violence of his father, his mother's sadness, the disaffection of Lucilia, his first wife, the inability to have children, the unacceptance of his art, the possible loss of Mindinha, his great love, the abyss between genius and madness. The pieces of this game recreated chronologically conform the personality of Villa: energetic and fragile, humble and megalomaniac, amorous and egocentric, brilliant and naive, ...

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Plot Keywords:

concert | passion | brazil | brazilian | memory | 

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Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music

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Details

Country:

Brazil

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

9 March 2005 (France)

Also Known As:

Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion

Company Credits

Production Co:

Mapa Filmes

Technical Specs

Runtime:

130 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

User Reviews

This Movie Degrades The Life of probably the greatest brazillian composer

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.