They Shot the Piano Player at Prytania Uptown

They Shot the Piano Player

104 mins | Rated PG-13 (for smoking and some violence.)

Directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal

Starring Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, Paulo Moura, Jeff Goldblum

A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.

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A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.

They Shot the Piano Player

104 mins | Rated PG-13 (for smoking and some violence.) | Animated

Directed by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal | Starring Caetano Veloso, João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Vinicius de Moraes, Paulo Moura, Jeff Goldblum

A celebratory origin story of the world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova, the film captures a fleeting time bursting with creative freedom at a turning point in Latin American history in the ’60s and ’70s, just before the continent was engulfed by totalitarian regimes.