It's Friday. I hope you packed your bags. To fully feel the beauty of the bossa nova, you must see the following three films—Rio de Janeiro, Bossa Nova do Brasil and Saravah. Each is sensual and enlightening for different reasons and each stars great Brazilian artists of the day:
Here's an edited Copacabana Palace (1962). The Italian comedy directed by Stefano Vanzina celebrates the widening popularity of the bossa nova in the early 1960s, before the 1964 coup in Brazil. The film includes a beach scene with Luis Bonfá, João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim serenading dates...
Here's Bossa Nova do Brasil (1967), featuring a bossa nova concert on tour in Europe in 1966. It stars singer Sylvia Telles just months before her fatal car accident in Rio de Janeiro in December at age 32 (for more on Telles, go here)...
And here's Saravah (1969) a film by French director Pierre Barouh that showcased the music of Baden Powell, Paulinho da Viola, Maria Bethania, João da Bahiana and Pixinguinha...
