Name of the song with acoustic guitar?
Can someone please tell me the name of the song that's sung by a couple with acoustic guitar in the middle of the movie? I'm going nuts!!!
shareI think it's "Waters of March" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
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I don't know the song, but I believe they were singing in Portuguese, NOT in Spanish.
I did some further research and found that yes, the song is "Waters of March" originally written in Portuguese as a Brazilian bossa nova ("Aguas da Marco"). Several versions of the song can be found on YouTube, including one sung as a duet between a man and a woman like in the movie. There is even a YouTube version sung in Portuguese with English subtitles. Finally, the song was later translated into English and recorded by Art Garfunkel. Aside from Paulina Garcia's acting in the role of Gloria, I found the only other redeeming feature of the film was the soundtrack. Unfortunately, I cannot find that the movie soundtrack has ever been released...at least not on Amazon.com. The complete list of 10 songs with the singers in the film is provided on the IMDB box labeled "Did you know?"
Exactly. At first, I thought the song was being sung in Spanish or at least in "Portunhol" (which is a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish that some Brazilians speak when traveling to other countries in Latin America). But then becomes clear that it is being sung in Portuguese, with a Chilean accent.
shareYes, they were singing in Portuguese. Their accents were pretty much perfect, by the way. That was the version of Águas de Março as sung by Elis Regina and Tom Jobim in the mid-70s. Lovely times!
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I don't quite understand what you mean by "perfect accent". I am Brazilian and the accent of the actors as they sing the song I would not call "perfect", but "delicious".
shareI am Brazilian too. I've lived there until I was fifteen years old. I did mean they had a perfect accent, far better than most Portuguese speaking person trying to say tricky words in Spanish. They did an amazing job, even though the ~ão wasn't quite the correct pronunciation. But we can forgive that: I've been living in England for nearly twenty years and sometimes I get a couple words wrong! It's impossible to pronounce words like a native speaker but, from that p.o.v., it was, indeed, "delicious" to hear their singing.
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