2014 · drama · music · history
Tim Maia
Directed by Mauro Lima2h 20m2014
Biopic of Brazilian singer Tim Maia, from his childhood in Rio de Janeiro until his death at age 55, including his passage by the US, where he discovers a new style of music and is arrested for theft and drug possession.
Our read: Tim Maia (2014) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · music · history entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle drama / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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