Cinemaritas condenses Rita Lee’s legacy in documentary self -portraited by Oswaldo Santana and coding by Karen Harley, a documentary officially debut on May 22, Rita Leepi’s Day

Dive Rita Lee And its almost 80 years of life is an almost impossible task for a 1h20 documentary. However, Ritendirected by Oswaldo Santana and codirighed by Karen Harleydoes not try to decipher Rite Fully, and perhaps your greatest strength is there.

Instead of a totalizing portrait, the film, which hits theaters on May 22, Rita Lee’s day, opts for an intimate, affective and creative celebration of an artist who has always escaped from conventional frames. The result is a self -portrait that embraces the multiplicity of Riten who inhabited the woman behind the myth.

Riten part of the voice of Rita Leerecovering unpublished interviews, home recordings and personal records that, sewn with intelligence – and a lot of music – create a narrative guided by the artist herself. It is a huge choice: no one better than Rite to talk about Rite. With acid humor, irony, sweetness and, above all, true, she leads us by her trajectory with impressive lucidity, even when dealing with difficult topics. The tone never slips to melodrama or empty idolatry: it’s a sincere movie, as it has always been.

Visually, the documentary assumes a psychedelic and playful spirit, translated into animations and a vibrant montage that honors not only the artist’s aesthetics, but his challenging attitude towards life and art. The soundtrack, of course, is pulsating as the heart of the movie, not only as a musical background, but also as an extension of the narrative itself. Each song evokes collective and affective memories, also composing the Rite who lives in the public imagination.

Despite that, Riten It can arouse in some people the feeling that there was still more to explore – which is still true, after all, as I said, this is a documentary that tries to condense more than seven decades of history in less than 90 minutes. However, the film’s proposal is neither didactic nor analytical but emotional. And within this proposal, it delivers what it promises: a sensitive and missing dive in the most varied facets of Rita Lee.

At the end, Riten It is less a biography and another meeting. A reunion actually, between Rite and your audience, between Rite And herself, between Rite And the camera, which she faces without masks. In short, it is as the director declares Oswaldo Santanain an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone Brazil“The movie is an invitation to delivery: Living the moment, as Rita lived“, intensely, honest, ironic, loving and multiple.

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