Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Hail Antonia!
Music and movies are most universal and international of currencies and expresion.
Antonia is about a group of four Brasilian woman hip hop background singers who glimpse the fancy of creating a group of their own.
The details of their lives are revealed to the story in a naturalistic progressive disclosure. Each of the women have an individual and contrasting personality. It is the level of detail that draws one into the experience of Antonia. The sisterhood solidarity and dream of these women built up over their lifetimes in the early scenes of the is worn down by their essentially worthless menfolk and the tough Brasiliana streets and men folk. But plot doesn't matter a whole lot in a film like this: music, personality and experience do as they did in Black Orpheus or The Harder they Come. Antonia doesn't necessarily sit on the same level of those films but carries you into its own world with zest and vibrancy. Also, the rap and hip hop in the film sound great in Portuguese.
posted by well-executed buffet at 5:25 PM
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