  Rio 70s  Dirs: Patricia Faloppa, Mauricio Branco. Brazil.
2012. 75mins  Sun, sand, sea and sex…Rio de Janeiro during the
1970s might seem the perfect place on paper to embrace
liberation and music, but this was still the period of the
military regime. The decade, though, also saw the city
influenced by the hippy movement and little by little the
Brazilian need to party would come to the fore.  Rio 70s comes
into its own when it starts to detail the club scene and the
impact it had on the city.  Rio 70s (Rio Anos 70), directed by
Patricia Faloppa and Mauricio Branco with a certain style and
affection and making good use of grainy footage of the period
alongside interviews, details the mood of the period when it
came to music, drugs, clubbing and sex. A film for broadcasters
really, it is at its best as a document of the club scene of the
1970s rather than a historical document.  The film starts off
detailing the sea, surf and sex culture that defined the
Copacabana beach of the 1970s, with a few commentators