Cinderela Baiana

Cinderela Baiana nb Portuguese for Bahian Cinderella is a 1998 Brazilian semifictionalized biographical romantic comedy film directed by Conrado Sanchez who also wrote the screenplay, even though he was uncredited for it and produced by Antnio Polo Galante. It is a heavily fictionalized biography of dancer Carla Perez, famous for being a former member of ax group o Tchan. The film is noted for being the debuts of Perez, thenunknown actors Lzaro Ramos and Lucci Ferreira, and musician Alexandre Pires frontman of samba group S Pra Contrariar and Carla Perezs thenboyfriend on a feature film, and also counts with cameos by singers Netinho and Ctia Guimma, portraying themselves.

Carla Perez portrayed by Carla Fabianny as a child and by herself as an adult lives with her father Raimundo Armindo Bio and unnamed tuberculous mother Juliana Calil in a small, poor shack located somewhere in the middle of the serto of Bahia. After her mother dies, Carla and her father decide to move to Salvador in order to achieve better life conditions. Carla, having an innate talent for dancing, soon is spotted by zany talent manager Pierre Perry Salles and his personal assistant Beto Josevaldo Oliveira she is initially enthusiastic about her newly acquired fame, but soon discovers Pierre is an unscrupulous man that is only interested into the profits of exploiting her. Helped by her two vagabond friends, Bucha Lucci Ferreira and Chico Lzaro Ramos, and by her boyfriend, Alexandre Pires portrayed by himself, she garners the strength to fight Pierre back and live freely as she wishes.The film was lambasted by critics and the public alike, who criticized Carla Perezs lackluster and amateurish performance, the clichd plot which was compared by a critic to a poor mans ripoff of Pretty Woman, several narrative inconsistencies and Perry Salles ridiculously overthetop acting as Pierre. It holds a score of 2.3 out ofat the Internet Movie Database and ofout ofat Filmow, based on 741 votes. Carla Perez announced in 2008 that she had disowned the film, saying that she regretted it as an actress, and it was ultimately withdrawn from circulation a couple of years after its release thus being, physical copies of the film are extremely rare and very difficult to obtain. However, it has found its way to survive via filesharing websites, being uploaded in its entirety to YouTube on January 30, 2013. The film has acquired a small cult following, with excerpts of it being widely used as a source for YouTube Poops in Brazil. ........

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