Rita Lee: Mania de Você

Rita Lee pulls open archival boxes, retrieves worn photographs, and laughs at the memories. The 2025 documentary is not a chronology but a kaleidoscope of episodes woven from home videos, concert footage, and candid interviews. We see not just the icon of Brazilian rock, but the woman who navigated meteoric rises, painful falls, dictatorship-era censorship, and personal dramas. The camera follows her through her home, garden, and studio, capturing moments of reflection and sudden musical improvisations. The film avoids grandiose statements, allowing Rita herself and her inner circle—husband Roberto de Carvalho, children, collaborators—to speak about art, freedom, and legacy. It's a portrait of an artist for whom music was always a mode of existence and resistance.