Synopsis
Creative Process
Sketchbooks do diretor
-”There will be a time in which he realize everything we do will eventually turn into memories one day.” (Cezare Pavese)
“Only the things that either passed or changed or disappeared reveal to us their true nature”
FABLE of the LAND
SUBTERRANEAN FABLE Water/Air/Fire
Velho Chico
Broken Heart - Human Circle - Gran Cirko
Cotton flaks float in the air at all times. Love, War, Fire, Sun.
Part of the legend. Raimundo. Mamolengo. Cloth
Duo of narrators Chronicle northeast. Singing the legend. Shanghai. Maciel
Antônio Fagundes
Mada at the end would go up the stage and dance with him? Saruê? Watched by Carlos Eduardo from a room?
Saruê hits the ground and the scared horse runs away.
Cícero runs along Saruê shooting his gun to warn Clemente
Several shots to the sky!!! Clement hears them!!!!
Tropicalism > anti-patriarchal movement
“What this language can and cannot do?”
67 - Tropicália – General – Caetano
68 – Not Identified > Does Iolanda sing? Gil and Caetano. Santo x Tereza
68 - Divino Maravilhoso (Marvelous Divine) {Gil and Caetano}
Afrânio. The renegade son is back home!
Death of Belmiro.
- “I came here just to say/No one will silence me/There is so much life to live/There is so much life to end” G. Vandre
- Cícero
New cut of Olivia
Cast Preparation
Videos
Soundtrack
Velho Chico – Original Soundtrack by Tim Rescala
Songs that composed the soundtrack of the soap opera were gathered in three volumes: Velho Chico – Volume 1; Velho Chico – Volume 2 and Velho Chico – Original Soundtrack by Tim Rescala.
Brazilianness is the fundamental element of the soundtrack of Velho Chico, which depicts the roots of the country. At the intro, a new recording of Tropicália (Caetano Veloso). The musical curator of the soap opera was made by director Luiz Fernando Carvalho and the original soundtrack has the signature of conductor Tim Rescala. The high point is the dialogue between artists from different generations – such as Marcelo Jeneci (Veja Margarida) and Céu (Perfume do Invisível) and Maria Bethânia (Mortal Loucura e Meu Primeiro Amor) and Tom Zé (Senho Cidadão and Dor e Dor) – with the great national heritage, such as Chico Cesar in Serenata, added to the Brazilian rock of Raul Seixas (Metamorfose Ambulante) and Legião Urbana (Monte Castelo
1. Despertar do Velho Chico
2. Águas Cristalinas
3. Alegria no Vilarejo
4. Retirantes
5. Nordeste Medieval
6. Batalha 1
7. O Poder
8. Encantamento
9. Felicidade e Fartura
10. Santo e Maria Tereza
11. O Amor de Luzia
12. Segundo Encanamento
13. Abenção
14. Desafio Agalopado
15. Desolação
16. Esperança e Luta
17. O Velho Chico Com Águas Claras
18. Solidão e Remorso
19. Batalha 2
20. Sombras do Passado
21. O Velho Chico com Águas Turvas
22. Subterrâneos 2
23. No Bar do Chico Criatura
24. Bento e Beatriz
25. Passarinhos
1. Tropicália – Caetano Veloso
2. Gemedera – Amelinha
3. Me Leva – Renata Rosa
4. Flor De Tangerina – Alceu Valença
5. Enquanto Engoma A Calça – Ednardo
6. Veja (margarida) – Marcelo Jeneci
7. Como 2 E 2 – Gal Costa
8. L’étranger (forasteiro) – Thiago Pethit Participação Especial: Tiê
9. I-margem – Paulo Araujo
10. Incelença Do Amor Retirante – Xangai Participação Especial: Elomar
11. Serenata (standchen) – Chico César
12. Pot-pourri – Suite Correnteza – Elomar, Geraldo Azevedo, Vital Farias, Xangai (barcarola Do São Francisco / Talismã / Caravana)
13. Triste Bahia – Caetano Veloso
14. Senhor Cidadão – Tom Zé
1. Mortal Loucura – Maria Bethânia
2. Da Aurora até o Luar – Dadi
3. Não há Cabeça – Pélico
4. A Olhos Nus – Ná Ozzetti e Zé Miguel Wisnik
5. O Ciúme – Caetano Veloso
6. Encarnação – Elba Ramalho
7. Ondas do Mar de Vigo – Fortuna
8. Perfume do Invisível – Céu
9. Réquiem para Matraga – Geraldo Vandré
10. Moça Bonita – Alceu Valença
11. La Belle de Jour – Alceu Valença
12. Um Oh! E um Ah! – Tom Zé
13. Dor e Dor – Tom Zé
14. Vitta, Ian, Cassales – Apanhador Só
15. Coração – Bárbara Eugênia
16. Metamorfose Ambulante – Raul Seixas
17. Monte Castelo – Legião Urbana
18. Meu Primeiro Amor (Lejania) – Maria Bethânia
Frames
Gallery
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Awards
Books
Small Accordion of Memories
Album in accordion-book shape including 140 pages with photos, letters, notes, frames from the soap opera and backstage images from the personal files of the cast and staff of Velho Chico. The book of affections and memories was idealized by director Luiz Fernando Carvalho as a gift for all those that were part of the production and is also a tribute to actors Domingos Montagner and Umberto Magnani.
Critical Fortune
1, May — 2016
Soap Opera Expert
- O Globo
“I was already trying to visualize everything Luiz Fernando Carvalho was capable of doing, and not just as way of solidarity. What he is doing in Velho Chico surpasses everything he has ever done on TV – with the possible exception of Os Maias. He is incapable of accepting a framework less than perfect, and has also the talent is handpicking a equally perfect cast.”
Leia Mais
1, Oct — 2016
Velho Chico re-inaugurates the desire for an utopia
- O Globo
“What an extraordinary soap opera is Velho Chico. What a beautiful photography in sepia and brown shades. A soap opera colored by clay and dust, soil and mud. There is not a single blond actor – not even the colonels. There are no blue eyes. The Brazil of Benedito Ruy Barbosa and Luiz Fernando Carvalho belongs to the agreste. It is poor, remedied, devastated and full of hope”
Leia Mais
24, Mar — 2016
Velho Chico marks a great moment in television drama
- O Globo
“Millimetric calculation can be the greatest enemy of emotion and this sentence applies to pretty much everything. But that was not what we saw in a chapter of Velho Chico.. Instead, those two forces ran together to potentiate the voltage of the action.
It was an impeccable construction, a plan schemed and implemented with perfection by the direction of Luiz Fernando Carvalho. What a beautiful moment of dramaturgy.”
Leia Mais
30, Mar — 2017
Bravo! Award | Artist of the Year | Luiz Fernando Carvalho
- Revista Bravo
“Luiz Fernando Carvalho receives the Bravo! Award of artist of the year for his aesthetic renovation of the primetime.”
Leia Mais30, Mar — 2017
Bravo! Award | Artist of the Year | Luiz Fernando Carvalho
- Revista Bravo
“Luiz Fernando Carvalho receives the Bravo! Award of artist of the year for his aesthetic renovation of the primetime.”
Leia Mais
16, Mar — 2016
Velho Chico scores high in its debut
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“The soundtrack, as well as photography, direction of actors and the whole scenographic work are off of the curve fostered by the TV industry.”
Leia Mais
10, Dec — 2016
Velho Chico scores high in its debut
- Veja Rio
“The soundtrack, as well as photography, direction of actors and the whole scenographic work are off of the curve fostered by the TV industry.”
Leia Mais
16, Mar — 2016
Beautiful chapter marks the return of the rural Brazil to TV
- O Globo
“Debut of Velho Chico had the same authorial stamp of its director, Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
Leia Mais
1, Oct — 2016
Velho Chico marked by the aesthetic ambition and cultural relevance
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Velho Chico is milestone in the recent history of the Brazilian TV. Thanks to its theme and aesthetics, the soap opera reminded how television drama by Globo, in certain moments, is capable of combining entertainment with cultural relevance and offer awareness on the reality of the country.”
Leia Mais
18, Mar — 2016
Velho Chico and the real and fantastic Brazils
- O Globo
“Velho Chico, somehow, brought the fable back to prime time. (…) But the execution of Luiz Fernando Carvalho will make you dream. And the story of Benedito Ruy Barbosa has many opportunities to please the audience with this mix or arid reality with aestheticization.”
Leia Mais
15, Mar — 2016
Back to the classic feuilleton
- Extra
“Velho Chico debuted yesterday night fulfilling all requirements of a big production: gorgeous scenes, perfect direction, top cast.”
Leia Mais
30, Sep — 2016
The biggest achievement of Velho Chico was to cause and stimulate the audience
- Blog do Nilson Xavier
“Velho Chico set one of the most interest precedents in terms of modern television and its audience. Since its debut, the soap opera received divided opinions and caused discussions. Metaphors proposed in the text of Luperi and Benedito found resonance in the aesthetic concept of the director. Luiz Fernando Carvalho offered the audience the yearning sigh, but in a package the audience was not used to. (…) According to Boni: ‘Television must always walk one step ahead of the audience’. Velho Chico was a good example.”
Leia Mais
21, Apr — 2016
Culture is strategic
- Zero Hora
“Velho Chico is gorgeous, with photography and cinematographic frameworks, exuberant colors and a Shakespearean story that works.”
Leia Mais
28, Sep — 2016
Ethereal presence of Domingos Montagner in Old Chico
- O Globo
“No stuntman or cheap tricks. Victim of tragedy that made Brazil sad – greatly affecting the staff of “Velho Chico” – Domingos Montagner was in the soap opera the day before yesterday. Luiz Fernando Carvalho resorted to a subjective camera to bring the incorporeal presence of the actor to almost all sequences. It was, of course, a technical feature. However, any rational character was fully absorbed by the dramaturgy and dissolved by the visible emotion that dominated the cast and reached the audience. (…) Carvalho got close to the dangerous borders and managed to succeed.”
Leia Mais
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Thrilling and exquisite today’s chapter of Velho Chico
3, Aug — 2016
Lucy Alves, who plays Luzia in Velho Chico, is now the current leader of the show
- O Globo
“The work to select the cast in Velho Chico was significantly ample. Producer Luiz Antônio Rocha looked for actors in the Northeast region, Luiz Fernando Carvalho carried out exhaustive selections. The outcome is now aired. To the talents the audience is already familiarized with, many others, less known, have joined (such as Lucy Alves)”
Leia Mais7, Jun — 2016
Marcos Palmeira gets the spotlight in Velho Chico
- O Globo
“This is the best work of the actor on television and a major improvement what he did in the past, including other rural plots.”
Leia Mais
19, Apr — 2016
Irandhir Santos, a great actor that deserves some attention
- O Globo
“Now that he is on scene, his character Bento will not stay behind. His performance is worth your attention.”
Leia Mais
Press
Principais notícias
1, Mar — 2016
Sertão is back to prime time
“The bow of Zezita to Luiz Fernando echoes the compliments accumulated in the career of the director, now 55 years old, a career made of television works known for their aesthetic exuberance and for the boldness to take to the screen adaptations of literary works from great writers, as seen in the miniseries Os Maias (Eça de Queiroz), Capitu (a reinvention of Dom Casmurro, written by Machado de Assis), Stone of the Kingdom (Ariano Suassuna) and Alexandre and Others Heroes, based on two short stories written by Graciliano Ramos, namely O Olho Torto de Alexandre (The Crooked Eye of Alexandre) and A Morte de Alexandre (The Death of Alexandre)”
1, Aug — 2016
Refinement at 9:00 pm
- Revista JP
31, Jan — 2016
‘The main function of television is to create citizens’
- Folha de S.Paulo
“Aesthetic function is the daughter of the ethical function. There is no beauty alone. (…) When TV takes this aesthetic role, it necessarily hold hands with it. The beauty, the good text, the good image, the good music are all founding elements of a country. And consequently are educational elements, but through emotion”, Luiz Fernando Carvalho
Leia Mais
14, Apr — 2016
Amarello visits: Luiz Fernando Carvalho
At each work he introduces a deeper Brazil, a country we often do not see, and he knows the national culture deeply and thus is licensed to perform such dive. Luiz puts body and soul in his works. He gives it all. He seeks fantasy in truth and truth in fantasy. He makes Brazilian art, and takes hold of the reach provided by TV to take it even farther. Because art, in truth, is to speak the truth.”
Leia Mais
14, Mar — 2016
Stanley Kubrick of the Brazilian TV, director Luiz Fernando Carvalho talks about the soap opera
- Ometele
“Their rivalry will develop from the 1960s up to the present day, under the guidance of a director often called ‘the Stanley Kubrick of the Brazilian TV’ due to his plastic rigor and his search to expand the borders of epic narratives: Luiz Fernando Carvalho.”
Leia Mais
13, Mar — 2016
Born to the Sertão
- O Estado de S.Paulo
“Luiz Fernando, says Benedito, is a director capable of uncovering elements from the text that not even authors are aware of. “I am always amazed seeing what he can do with my text. He has the power to improve every single text on the paper.”
Leia Mais
11, Mar — 2016
A Movie-like Soap Opera
- Diário Catarinense
“The work of Benedito perfectly matches the style of Luiz Fernando Carvalho (…) in the sense of having an exciting text with a differentiated aesthetic proposal, very ludic and lyrical”, Nilson Xavier.
Leia Mais
8, Mar — 1026
All I wanted was to see this country less abandoned
- O Dia
“I deal with the conscious, I believe in a sort of education through the senses I want to awaken”, Luiz Fernando Carvalho”
Leia Mais
2, Apr — 2016
The mining that comes from memory
“Actress Camila Pitanga said the creative process proposed by the director cause her to abandon the automaton-like performance usually focused on results”
Leia Mais
21, Feb — 2016
Velho Chico will have 60% of the cast composed by Northeastern actors
- O Globo
“We want the people from the Northeast region to feel themselves represented in a poetic manner, Marina Nery.
Leia Mais
6, Mar — 2016
Unforgettable experience
- Jornal do Commercio
“We are making history, I am so glad to work with Luiz and to know that I would be part of this process”, Rodrigo Santoro
Leia Mais
2, May — 2016
Renato Góes
- O Globo
“In order to face the archetypes proposed by the Luiz Fernando Carvalho method of direction, he studied “The Power of Myth” (Joseph Campbell”
Leia Mais