A Prime Video’s Hidden Gem With 97% Tomatometer Is a Must-Watch If You Liked La La Land

Summary:

• Back in 2016, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land seemingly revived everyone’s passion about musical rom coms that don’t get too teary to bore at once, and Prime Video ’s latest comedy hit follows the trend, but in its own way.
• The movie with Camilla Mendes in one of the leading roles is created and starred by a filmmaker of Brazilian origin who put his personal complicated story in the center of his film.
• Despite not being the object of everyone’s talks, the film became Prime Video’s hidden gem garnering glowing reviews within the first days of its official streaming run.

Damien Chazelle’s biggest hit La La Land may have never got to that cherished statuette for Best Picture at the 2017 Oscars ceremony, but it surely started a whole new trend of romantic musical comedies — and they aren’t too saccharine to forget them soon after.

Though the music can take drastically different forms in there giving a helping hand to characters or, quite the contrary, become their biggest rival, it’s still something delightful to spend an evening with, and Prime Video’s recently released high-rated romcom proves it like nothing else.

Released on the platform on April 4, Música, a coming-of-age comedy starring Rudy Mancuso and Camilla Mendes, was quick to conquer critics and viewers’ hearts by landing solid scores of 98% and 87% respectively on Rotten Tomatoes.

Being Mancuso’s directorial debut as well, the movie is based on his own living experience of a street performer with synesthesia, the condition that basically triggers several senses at a time making a person feel like they’re able to see shapes while listening to music.

Música finds its main character Rudy on the streets of a Brazilian neighborhood in Newark where he lives with his mother, but something in his life still doesn’t seem to work out as he struggles to find a stable job while his girlfriend puts some extra pressure on him.

Things change when Rudy meets Isabella and, while he feels like she’s a real life-changer, everything gets to be even more complicated than before.

Being a “true-ish” story told by its owner all along, Música doesn’t seem to follow any big musical flicks’ suit opting for choosing its own path, yet still with the same familiar elements of love/life/family complications inserted in there.