Rogério Sganzerla and his tribute to short-lived but prominent singer/composer Noel Rosa (1910-1937) fails to cause an impression and to
either introduce new audiences to the man as it is a blurred and chaotic presentation of facts and events that doesn't offer anything to the viewer.
But I tried really hard to follow Sganzerla's ideas and portrayal of the samba author of more than 200 songs, including "Com Que Roupa?"
and "Conversa de Botequim". It consists of mostly an impassionate narrator stating some facts here and there, as if being Noel Rosa himself, then cuts
to several archive images of the early 20th century but there's a fade to black cut interrupting time and again and it becomes a bore after all. Of course,
there's the songs too and that might seduce the viewer in getting to know the man and his time, abruptly cut short at age of 26, due to a tuberculosis
brought on by his wild bohemian days. This isn't a strong compelling piece to understand Noel Rosa's geniality neither why he's considered one of the
greatest music talents of Brazil; here it's a reduced and splintered view about an artist, and it's not a curious view. 5/10.
