Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára
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Based on | Cazuza: Só as Mães São Felizes by Lucinha Araújo |
Produced by | Daniel Filho |
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Cinematography | Walter Carvalho |
Edited by | Sérgio Mekler |
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Distributed by | Columbia TriStar |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
Country | Brazil |
Language | Portuguese |
Box office | R$21.2 million[1] |
Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára (Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop) is a 2004 Brazilian biographical musical drama film directed by Sandra Werneck and Walter Carvalho, about the life of singer Cazuza.[2] It stars Daniel de Oliveira as Cazuza. The film is based on the 1997 biography Cazuza: Só as Mães São Felizes by Cazuza's mother, Lucinha Araújo. The film won a Best Actor Award from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards. It was one of the most successful films of the year in Brazil.
Synopsis
[edit]Focusing on Cazuza's personal life, the film chronicles his early career, his subsequent success, his drug use and his promiscuous lifestyle. It starts out in the early 1980s in Rio de Janeiro, showing his usual day-to-day life until he joins the band which would become Barão Vermelho. It then shows the band's rise to fame and its frequent "mutinies" which led him to pursue a solo career. Later, it depicts his struggle against the AIDS virus and his final days.
Cast
[edit]- Daniel de Oliveira as Cazuza
- Marieta Severo as Lucinha Araújo
- Débora Falabella as Dani
- Reginaldo Faria as João Araújo
- Emílio de Mello as Ezequiel Neves
- Cadu Fávero as Frejat
- Arlindo Lopes as Dé
- Dudu Azevedo as Guto
- André Pfeffer as Maurício
- Leandra Leal as Bebel Gilberto
- Andréa Beltrão as Malu
- André Gonçalves as Maneco
- Eduardo Pires as Serginho
- Pierre Santos as Tonico
- Vitor Hugo as Bené
- Maria Mariana as Talita
- Augusto Garcia as Carlos
- Maria Flor as girl from Bauru
- Fernanda Boechat as girl on bridge
- André Moraes as guitar player
References
[edit]- ^ "Série Histórica Filmes Nacionais – 1995 a 2007" (PDF) (in Portuguese). ANCINE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
- ^ Bayman, Louis; Pinazza, Natália (2013). Directory of World Cinema: Brazil. Intellect Books. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-78320-009-2.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Portuguese)
- Cazuza: O Tempo Não Pára at IMDb
- 2004 films
- 2004 biographical drama films
- 2004 LGBTQ-related films
- 2000s musical drama films
- 2000s Portuguese-language films
- Biographical films about LGBTQ people
- Biographical films about singers
- Brazilian biographical drama films
- Brazilian LGBTQ-related films
- Brazilian musical drama films
- Brazilian rock music films
- Cultural depictions of rock musicians
- Films about HIV/AIDS
- Films based on biographies
- Films set in the 1980s
- Films set in 1990
- Films set in Rio de Janeiro (city)
- LGBTQ-related musical drama films
- 2000s Brazilian films
- 2000s Brazilian film stubs
- Biographical film stubs