Movie

Cinderella Baiana

1998 · 85 min

A cheerful, unpolished rags-to-riches musical that feels like a sunny, amateurish fable about dancing your way out of poverty.

Overview: A poor family, lives in a city near Salvador. The father is cleaner and, mother and daughter help making small services. Until they decide to try the luck in the big city and the father, João, get a job near Pelourinho, next to a dance academy. The daughter, Carla, in contacting music, discovers her true vocation and becomes a very successful dancer. But she does not let himself take away from fame and back to his origins, meets with poor children and teaches them to dance.
How it feels: Warm, light, earnest and campy. Brisk and easy to follow.
About: Family, ambition, class, music
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
campystrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
ambition
class
music
identity
Places: big city
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: musical
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild