Mamonas Assassinas: La Película

This film is a biopic of "MAMONAS ASSASSINAS", a comic rock band that had a huge success for only 8 months in 1995/96 in Brazil. It portrays the hard life of five musicians as they did petty jobs to scrape together money to make a record of their rock band "UTOPIA". A music producer advised them to change their style and to write lyrics that reflected what it was like to be a bunch of poor but very talented youngsters. This change made them incredibly famous overnight all over the country. In the film, the actors really caught the spirit of the real musicians, the production design shows the nineties in small details and the editing makes the movie very dynamic. The sound track made me cry my heart out because, as a Brazilian, I witnessed their success. I also remember crying as all five of them died when the small plane they were in crashed into a mountain minutes after an unsuccessful landing in the airport of Guarulhos, their hometown. It was a great loss as their career had only just begun. They were scheduled to make a long tour in Portugal, which might have triggered their international success. Give this film a chance. You won't regret it.