As we turn the calendar to a new year, instead of looking back at the year that was, 2016 starts on what is a quietly interesting theatrical release date. With Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight expanding from its original limited release roadshow run into theaters across the country, and The Force Awakens still tearing up the worldwide box office, one smaller documentary has started 2016 with a wonderfully quiet bit of counter programming.
Entitled This Is Bossa Nova, director Paulo Thiago sends viewers headlong into the world of Bossa Nova music, in what is both a quietly engaging, and shockingly dense, journey into one of world music’s most beautiful genres. To many people, at least here stateside, Bossa Nova music is a genre that is a relatively large blind spot. Born out of the 1950s in Brazil, the music was born out of samba music, ostensibly a more intimate, almost...
Entitled This Is Bossa Nova, director Paulo Thiago sends viewers headlong into the world of Bossa Nova music, in what is both a quietly engaging, and shockingly dense, journey into one of world music’s most beautiful genres. To many people, at least here stateside, Bossa Nova music is a genre that is a relatively large blind spot. Born out of the 1950s in Brazil, the music was born out of samba music, ostensibly a more intimate, almost...
- 1/4/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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