Amazon Prime Movie: Música

Heard a story about this on NPR.  This Brazilian-American guy lives with his mother in Newark, puts on puppet shows in the subway, and hears music everywhere around him.  His mother worries that he's not growing up.

He meets a Brazilian-American girl who "gets" him.  Sparks fly.


The music he hears around him is like a rhythmic symphony, everything is synchronized and everyone is playing together.  It's really kind of inspired.

Oh, and his puppet talks back to him. Some really intelligent touches like that in the editing and production.

The story on NPR was how the lead actor / writer / producer Rudy Mancuso cast this fairly unknown Brazilian actress Camila Mendes in the role, then proceeded to fall in love with her in real life.  The on-screen chemistry looks real because it was. They're now married.

His real mother plays his mother in the movie.  The house in the movie is the real house where Rudy grew up.