Friday, March 14, 2014

Bahian Cinderella (1998)

aka Cinderela Baiana

How bad is it? It's generally regarded as the worst film ever made in Brazil.
Should you see it? No.
This is so obscure that I was unable to obtain a print with English subtitles and had someone who spoke Portuguese translate for me. His most frequent comment was, "Why are you making me watch this?!"

This is a fictionalized biopic of Carla Perez's rise from poverty to stardom as a dancer, starring Perez herself, along with her then boyfriend and a few others who later became celebrities in Brazil. The actor who portrays her agent overacts to an almost impossible extent, while others underact. We see Perez's mother's death from tuberculosis and kids dancing in the streets. There are a lot of dance sequences, as one would expect, but they are all quite dull.

The film has apparently become a cult target for parody in Brazil, but it holds little of interest to people anywhere else.

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