Most music docs feel like trophy cabinets: look at the awards, look at the tours. The Rita Lee documentary feels like a living room.

One of the most powerful aspects of the is its exploration of her role as a feminist icon and a resistor of the military dictatorship. Rita Lee was never just an entertainer; she was a revolutionary.

This documentary, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in Lisbon, is often viewed as a companion to her bestselling autobiography. : It centers on the last interview Rita Lee gave

But we also see her finish her memoir (the book that inspired the title "Biografia de Uma Brasileira"). We see her celebrate her 50th anniversary with Roberto. And we see her die exactly as she lived: on her own terms, surrounded by love, refusing to play the victim.

O é dividido em três atos emocionantes:

O filme começa com a São Paulo da ditadura militar. Vemos Rita ainda adolescente, deslocada em uma sociedade conservadora, encontrando na Tropicália sua trincheira. As imagens mostram a efervescência do festival de 1967 e o choque que foi ver uma mulher de mini-saia tocando theremin na TV. É um retrato cru da pressão que ela sofria em um universo majoritariamente masculino.