The new documentary “Rita Lee: Mania de you ”Bring one the unpublished letter left by the singer, as well as a document she wrote while in prison during the military dictatorship. According to Roberto de Carvalho widower of the Brazilian rock queen, the letters are a “emotional testament” by Rita Lee.
“Reading this letter is very exciting,” he said in an interview with CNN . “Every time I read it is a torrent of deep and often difficult tears and feelings, so this card is a will. It is an emotional will of such a beautiful, rich, so beautiful and productive existence. A creativity, love that was Rita. That is Rita. ”
The documentary shows Roberto de Carvalho reading the letter Rita sent to him when she was in prison, also communicating the pregnancy of the couple’s first child, Beto . In the letter, she justified that she didn’t want him to see her there because she was “horrible.” “Imagine,” said Roberto de Carvalho as he read his high voice to the documentary. Following, Roberto is thrilled and cannot finish reading the letter to the recording.
Another moment is when the children Beto, Antonio and John read the letter left by their mother to them. According to João Lee, only he had read the material before the recording. “I had already read the letter, my father too, but my brothers had not read the letter, ”he told CNN . “So what you see there was totally natural and organic. And it’s cool. I think this side even improvised to record gives this natural and exciting tone that I think people will be thrilled together.”
Roberto de Carvalho revealed that the letter to the children was written when Rita became ill. The singer was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2021. “It’s very exciting, but as time went by and things went on and the disease appeared, the development of the disease, so the letter eventually acquired a more dramatic, more difficult color, and the moment it is read in the documentary, there was more or less the epilogue of a very painful and very difficult existence, especially for all, especially for the rite,” especially for us, ”especially for us” reported Roberto.
The documentary was recorded three weeks before Rita Lee died.
“Rita Lee: Mania de Você”, from the Max platform, is directed by Guido Goldberg and has the support and participation of the singer family. Production is now available on streaming.
Watch the trailer for “Rita Lee: Mania de you”:
Rita Lee: The Farewell of the Brazilian Queen of Rock
Beto Lee talks about his father’s grief after Rita Lee’s death
This content was originally published in a letter left by Rita Lee is an emotional will, says Roberto de Carvalho on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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