Amália

No, this is not our best movie at all!

I'm a huge fan of Amália, so I really wanted to see this movie and I did. It's nice, but what's the real problem with it? Well, apart from the fact that this movie adds some fiction to suit better the audience, it really doesn't show at all how famous she gets. Her career is almost like secondary and what really matters is the romance... So, if you like soap operas, you'll like this one; OK, to be honest you'll get to know Amália better, and that's the best thing about this film; It helps to promote Amália, making people who didn't know her so well to have a glimpse of how great she was.

In line with the Fado,no singer can just be its interpreter without context. There has to be some sort of history attached, the difficult life of a hyper-sensitive and highly emotional constitution to bring the sadness and pain of its songs. Not many people can understand that. These is the love and influence of the soap opera, a genre that latins like...and that runs in primetime! Yes, it is over-the-top, sentimental, passionate, sometimes tacky. But if you don't understand that, you are missing much of what latinos feel and are. And that includes Portugal.

For those who grew up in a Latin country then, the apparent corny excceses could very well pass as realistic. We have seen it, we have lived it, it's the culture.

"Amália" is probably the best Portuguese movie ever!

Since I was a little child, I listened Amália's songs (Fado), and her voice always make me think how would be her private life, both as a woman, as well as world-famous singer. "Amália" gives you a quite good image about that.

SANDRA BARATA BELO is amazing as Amália. She is very physically similar to Amália and she incorporates 100% her personality. The screenplay is very well engineered and the cinematography is spectacular!

I can't imagine this movie in another way, although it have some technical errors. For example, the Caracterization of the older Amália is a kind of exaggerated and a bit ridiculous... But that is comprehensible, we are in Portugal, and our cinema has not the evolution necessary to make it better.

However, that is not the big point. The truth is that "Amália" is a Portuguese film above average for what would be expected, and to see him, we are shown so sincere and stunningly orchestrated, the life, work and career of the greatest singer of Portuguese Fado of all time!

10 out of 10 {Especially by the boldness and courage!}