La música sirve para eso

ENSAYO DE ORQUESTA
LARGOMETRAJES
LA MÚSICA SIRVE PARA ESO
THAT’S WHAT MUSIC IS FOR
MÚSICA SERVE PRA ISSO
Brasil / Brazil, 2013
92 min.
Dirección / Director: Bel Bechara y
Sandro Serpa
Guión / Script: Bel Bechara y Sandro Serpa
Productor / Producer: Macondo Filmes
Fotografía / Cinematography: Bel Bechara
y Sandro Serpa
Edición / Editing:
Bel Bechara y Sandro Serpa
Intérpretes / Cast: “Os Mulheres Negras”
(Maurício Pereira e André Abujamra), Pena
Schmidt, Carlos Calado, Marisa Orth, Gal
Oppido, Skowa, Guilherme Bonfanti, Jarbas
Agnelli y Martín Buscaglia.
Contacto / Contact:
Bel Bechara y Sandro Serpa
Macondo Filmes
Rua Moacir M. Da Silva, 330, SP
São Paulo, Brasil,
Cep 05595-000
+55 11 386 28 840
macondo@macondo.com.br
www.macondo.com.br
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BEL BECHARA
(Brasil, 1976)
SANDRO SERPA
(Brasil, 1974)
Bel Bechara y Sandro Serpa trabajan juntos desde
1996. Fundaron la empresa "Macondo Filmes"
en 2001. Hicieron juntos los siguientes films: A
Doida (1999), Walter Franco Muito Tudo (2000),
De Incerta Feita (2001), Dalmar e Rosália (2002),
Onde Quer Que Você Esteja (2003), As Coisas Que
Moram nas Coisas (2006), Tempo B (2009), Boa
Noite (2011), Música Serve Pra Isso (2013)
Bel Bechara and Sandro Serpa have been working
together with since 1996. They founded the
company "Macondo Films" in 2001. Together they
made the following films: A Doida (1999), Walter
Franco Muito Tudo (2000), De Incerta Feita
(2001), Dalmar e Rosália (2002) Onde Quer Que
Você Esteja (2003), As Coisas Que Moram nas
Coisas (2006), Tempo B (2009), Boa Noite (2011)
and That’s What Music Is For (2013).
En los años ochenta en São Paulo, André Abujarra y Mauricio Pereira originan una banda muy particular,
Os Mulheres Negras (Los Mujeres Negras). El dúo André y Mauricio –guitarras, saxo y voces– se convierten en un fenómeno inclasificable de la música popular brasileña de la década. Revulsivo, antropofágico,
muy poco serio, imprevisible, el film recupera un itinerario en retrospectiva del grupo, que va desde sus
comienzos al camino de la disolución de la banda. Para reconstruir ese recorrido el film apela a testimonios presentes que inevitablemente contienen una cuota de nostalgia. Es la historia de la “Terceira
Menor Big Band do Mundo”, definición muy a tono con el espíritu del grupo. El film utiliza material de
archivo, historietas, música, ilustrando las elecciones estéticas de la banda, en un sorprendente contexto
histórico, político y cultural que conduce a la pregunta que debe hacerse sobre la cultura brasileña de
los ochenta a la actualidad y que está detrás de todo proceso artístico popular y espontáneo: ¿para qué
sirve todo esto que estamos haciendo?
In São Paulo in the eighties, André Abujarra and Mauricio Pereira create a very particular band, “Os
Mulheres Negras” (The Male Black Women). The duo André and Mauricio –guitars, sax and vocals– become an unclassifiable phenomenon of Brazilian popular music of that decade. Revolting, cannibalistic,
not at all serious and unpredictable, the film recovers a retrospective itinerary of the group, ranging
from its beginning to the path towards the band’s dissolution. To reconstruct that path, the film resorts
to current statements that will inevitably contain a share of nostalgia. It is the story of the "Terceira
Menor Big Band do Mundo", a definition very in tune with the spirit of the group. The film uses archive
material, cartoons and music, illustrating the aesthetic choices of the band in a surprising historical,
political and cultural context that leads to the question to be asked about the Brazilian culture from the
eighties to the present and that is behind every popular artistic and spontaneous process: what is the
point of all that we are doing?