Elis
- 2016
- 1h 50min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
6.7/10
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThe life of Elis Regina, undoubtedly the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told in this biopic film with energetic and pulsating rhythm.The life of Elis Regina, undoubtedly the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told in this biopic film with energetic and pulsating rhythm.The life of Elis Regina, undoubtedly the greatest Brazilian singer of all time, is told in this biopic film with energetic and pulsating rhythm.
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Elenco
- Premios
- 19 premios ganados y 14 nominaciones en total
Júlio Andrade
- Lennie Dale
- (as Julio Andrade)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
- Producción, taquilla y más en IMDbPro
Opiniones destacadas
What a beautiful and sad portrait, the certainty that she was a phenomenal singer, and definitely Ronaldo Bôscoli was a terrible husband and a despicable father, he wanted a film about the dramatic lives of children after their mother's death, especially of the first-born, poor boy... The track sound of the film, perfect and impeccable, it couldn't be different, Andréia Horta is wonderful, dictatorship and repression, sad, beautiful biography, deserved...
I've had a passing fascination for Elis Regina for many years and was very surprised to see this film advertised on Amazon Prime Video as I had not heard anything about it. I immediately assumed it was a documentary because of its lack of promotion in Europe, so you could imagine my surprise when I started playing it and saw a list of actors in the opening credits.
I think the reason why this movie did not resonate too well outside of Brazil is because it was not written for a global audience. The film made too many assumptions: firstly, that you are familiar with Elis' recordings and secondly you were bought up knowing a lot about the Brazilian music industry. Perhaps even more vitally, it made the assumption that everybody is aware of the brutality that occurred during the dictatorship. This, I believe, made the film inaccessible to the world.
Andréia Horta, in my humble opinion, gave an absolutely stunning performance capturing a lot of the essence of Elis Regina that I had seen in her performances and her interviews but, something was badly paced in the actual storytelling. The film either needed to be (at least) another 30 minutes longer or it needed to spread the story more evenly over the course of her years under the spotlight. Up until her television performances, I feel the director got the story right. After that, it was like a needle skating across a record. First a child and then three as if by magic.
This wasn't the main problem for me, though. Again, the movie made the assumption that the audience would immediately know in which year the events were occurring. I found it difficult to know whether the story was still in the mid seventies or the early 80s.
I also have a feeling that the story of her involvement with drugs wasn't properly told. One minute she was trying peyote and the next, we are to suspect that she died of some sort of drug overdose despite saying that music and her children were the most important things in her life.
I could watch this movie again just to enjoy Adréia Horta's performance once more (the support cast were also wonderfully portrayed), but I will end up with the same sense of unfulfillment.
I don't think you needed to be a Ray Charles fan to have enjoyed his biopic and to have felt that you got to know him not only as a singer but as a person as well, but this movie left me with more questions than answers.
I think the reason why this movie did not resonate too well outside of Brazil is because it was not written for a global audience. The film made too many assumptions: firstly, that you are familiar with Elis' recordings and secondly you were bought up knowing a lot about the Brazilian music industry. Perhaps even more vitally, it made the assumption that everybody is aware of the brutality that occurred during the dictatorship. This, I believe, made the film inaccessible to the world.
Andréia Horta, in my humble opinion, gave an absolutely stunning performance capturing a lot of the essence of Elis Regina that I had seen in her performances and her interviews but, something was badly paced in the actual storytelling. The film either needed to be (at least) another 30 minutes longer or it needed to spread the story more evenly over the course of her years under the spotlight. Up until her television performances, I feel the director got the story right. After that, it was like a needle skating across a record. First a child and then three as if by magic.
This wasn't the main problem for me, though. Again, the movie made the assumption that the audience would immediately know in which year the events were occurring. I found it difficult to know whether the story was still in the mid seventies or the early 80s.
I also have a feeling that the story of her involvement with drugs wasn't properly told. One minute she was trying peyote and the next, we are to suspect that she died of some sort of drug overdose despite saying that music and her children were the most important things in her life.
I could watch this movie again just to enjoy Adréia Horta's performance once more (the support cast were also wonderfully portrayed), but I will end up with the same sense of unfulfillment.
I don't think you needed to be a Ray Charles fan to have enjoyed his biopic and to have felt that you got to know him not only as a singer but as a person as well, but this movie left me with more questions than answers.
This biographical film explores the professional and personal life of the singer Elis Regina. It offers a trip into the atmosphere of the Bresil of the sixties and the seventies. A real effort of reconstitution of the choreography, cloth, furniture, etc. has been made. The actress performs very well in different areas. Time passes quickly as it has several rebounds.
A great assortment of badly told facts, actors who dub the studio song and a sad vision about Elis Regina. In all, a story badly told. Unless you already know the characters, mostly famous Brazilian musicians, I believe it is really hard to understand what is happening and their motivations. For instance, Elis Regina seems to be a happy young singer who suddenly turns into a spoiled unhappy house-wife. She then starting drinking, taking stuff (unclear what she takes, such a superficial approach
) and then she dies.
The main actress tried hard, but could only imitate the laughter of Elis, which she did all the time, even when it did not make sense.
Whoever made this film clearly was based on the same research of the musical (that's a good one) and does not like Elis Regina.
The main actress tried hard, but could only imitate the laughter of Elis, which she did all the time, even when it did not make sense.
Whoever made this film clearly was based on the same research of the musical (that's a good one) and does not like Elis Regina.
10luisamsf
What a beautiful and touching movie! The sensitiveness of the director amazed me as he was able to show this great singer as an idol and a human being at the same time. It must have been tough to choose what events of her life to tell in only two hours as she's gone through so many things during her short lived life, but he was able to stay true to who she was and to show how she evolved from a talented young singer, to major success, and her early death fighting her own demons. No words to describe Andrea Horta!!! What an amazing and powerful acting!! Elis lived again through her. Beautiful photography, arts and costume designs!! A must see!!
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaAndréia Horta had singing lessons during 3 months, 8 hours a day, so that her interpretation of Elis could be faithful to reality. In the singing scenes, however, it is Elis' real voice we hear.
- ErroresWhen he met and married Elis, César Camargo Mariano did not wear a beard (as in the film).
- ConexionesEdited into Elis: Viver é Melhor que Sonhar (2019)
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- USD 2,295,553
- Tiempo de ejecución
- 1h 50min(110 min)
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1
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