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Fabricando Tom Zé

  • 20062006
  • 1h 30m
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Fabricando Tom Zé (2006)
Documentary
Fabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary ... Read allFabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of To... Read allFabricating Tom Zé is a documentary that portrays the life and work of one of the most controversial Brazilian musicians, having as its backdrop Tom Zé's 2005 European Tour. The documentary mixes different video, film and animation formats in order to show a detailed vision of Tom Zé's personal musical universe, in which a guitar and a vacuum cleaner have the same mel... Read all
IMDb RATING
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133
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  • Director
    • Décio Matos Júnior
  • Writer
    • Décio Matos Júnior
  • Stars
    • David Byrne
    • Gilberto Gil
    • Neusa Marthins
  • Director
    • Décio Matos Júnior
  • Writer
    • Décio Matos Júnior
  • Stars
    • David Byrne
    • Gilberto Gil
    • Neusa Marthins
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      • 5 wins & 1 nomination

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    Neusa Marthins
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    Tom Zé
    • Tom Zé
    • Director
      • Décio Matos Júnior
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      Tom Zé: My band is composed of negroes, of ugly people, no one speaks English... this is prejudice! He was humiliating the Brazilian. Humiliating the poor man. All those good looking young men, beautiful; the typical explorer. I have no problem with this. I find pretty people pretty; as long as they don't start acting evilly. As long as they treat me respectfully. They have more knowledge, they stole from us; I accept the rule. But don't act evilly; evil like a son of a bitch. That I don't accept.

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    3/10
    Confusing, unambicious and disappointing
    Tom Zé is a very creative Brazilian musician, whose work is unique, very sophisticated and one that deserves a great deal of attention (some have called him "the Brazilian Frank Zappa", not because they sound alike _they don't!_, but because the two of them studied classical music but composed popular music). Unfortunately, this documentary (that follows a somewhat cowardly and lazy trend in the contemporary Brazilian "film industry", documentaries about popular musicians _they're cheap and easy to make and have an almost guaranteed audience) fails to be as ambitious and rigorous as the artist it portraits.

    Basically, we see Tom Zé on tour in Europe (France, Italy and Switzerland), to show us how he works with his band (with a great deal of improvisation _his concerts frequently seem like rehearsals, which sometimes is fun, sometimes not) and his wife and manager, but also to rub in our faces that an anti-commercial and under-appreciated artist from the backlands of a poor country in South America can "make it" (the tone is obviously hagiographic).

    Then there is a quick (and therefore failed) attempt to biograph him. Then he is shown as a misunderstood genius and the film tries to answer why it took so long for him to get his well-deserved (although not big) recognition (citing old grudges that are unexplained) but, again, it fails to do so. Basically, it is a very poor, confusing and disappointing film _very differently from Mr. Zé's music. Sadly, it doesn't do him and his work justice. But check out his albums, though _specially his masterpiece, "Estudando o Samba".
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    • Nov 15, 2009

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    • Release date
      • July 13, 2007 (Brazil)
    • Country of origin
      • Brazil
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Language
      • Portuguese
    • Filming locations
      • Irará, Bahia, Brazil
    • Production companies
      • Goiabada Productions
      • Muiraquitã Filmes
      • Primo Filmes
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      • $54,778
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      1 hour 30 minutes
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      • Color
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      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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