Mônica Salmaso

To celebrate the life and the work of a multifaceted creator – playwright, poet, partner of the most important names of Brazilian pop music and, above all, an enlightened character of the Brazilian cultural history - director Miguel Faria Jr. gathered an incomparable cast of partners, singers, friends and rare images from the archives recalling Vinícius’ genial simplicity, with the spontaneity, the humor, and the freedom of a person chatting over a bar table, exactly how the eternal Vinícius would enjoy.

Live DVD, recorded in March 2008 in Fecap theater in Sao Paulo, Brazil, records the show which has passed through the main capitals of the country. Beside the quintet Pau Brazil, formed by Nelson Ayres (piano), Paul Bellinati (guitar and ukulele), Teco Cardoso (sax and flutes), Ricardo Mosca (drums) and Rodolfo Stroeter (bass), Monica Salmaso features many phases of the author Chico Buarque.

Retour sur la vie et la carrière de Chico Buarque, l’un des plus grands noms de la musique brésilienne. Connu pour sa discrétion, il a permis à la caméra de Miguel Faria Jr., ami de longue date, de le suivre au quotidien et de filmer son processus créatif. Un concert est également l’occasion de recevoir des invités de marque, qui relatent avec lui son histoire au travers de la musique.

The documentary addresses the project, which took 30 years to complete, about the recording of 44 songs created for each poem in Mensagem, one of Fernando Pessoa's most emblematic books.

Journalist Pedro Bial discusses the most important current news in Brazil and in the rest of the world.