Rio's Love Song (1994) User Reviews

Kind of embarrassing

[ocangaceiro-1 · 4 February 2004]

Cacá Diegues has done a lot better. It was a good idea- 4 episodes showing love in different social classes in Rio. But the script is so embarrassingly bad, and at times the acting (especially the cabaret girl in Pisada de Elefante) is awful. Great actors participate: the great Fernanda Montenegro, Fernando Torres, Pedro Cardoso, Debora Bloch, are all great, as they are in everything they do. It's too bad that the script is so rudimentary and often cheesy. Of course, the music is great too. But the acting and music can't save the movie. Good thing the worst episode is the first one...it gets better after that.

If you like emotion and reality, watch

[nicegirlbr · 9/10 · 26 October 2002]

Beautiful, wonderful, sometimes shocking and true. Great movie, like every movie directed by Carlos "Cacá" Diegues. Four touching stories, from living in danger to a different type of love, passing by the prostitute. The stories have a song that gives their name, for example, "Drão" from the Gilberto Gil's song with the same name (also wonderful). Because of this, the movie is named "Veja Esta Canção" (See This Song).

Great cast, that acts a lot, with great actors and actresses like Fernando Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Pedro Cardoso, Débora Bloch, Floriano Peixoto, among others. The great production of Zelito Viana helps to make of this a small masterpiece. I strongly recommend this movie if you like a different type of love (not that romantic view from Hollywood movies, I mean love in the real world), the reality put on the screen at a shocking, even cruel way, and good music.