Just before her departure, Rita Lee writes a farewell letter to her three children and her husband and musical partner, Roberto de Carvalho, in which she reflects on her life and joyfully celebrates her family. Her final moments also mark the time to look back and review a career full of unforgettable successes, which led her to sell more than 55 million records. But it is also a time to reveal her downfalls, her vulnerable side, and her excesses as the queen of rock. With completely unseen personal archives and exclusive testimonies from her own family, as well as producers, journalists, musicians, and celebrities such as Gilberto Gil and Ney Matogrosso, "Rita Lee: Mania de Você" presents her definitive legacy.
Production
Unseen home footage that feels stolen from a family vault.
Editing
Seamless archive weaving — past and present collapse beautifully.
Writing
Her own words, unfiltered. No hagiography, just truth.
Director
Guido Goldberg
Rita Lee
Self
Roberto de Carvalho
Self
Hebe Camargo
Self (archive footage)
Moogie Canazio
Self
Luis Sérgio Carlini
Self
Walter Casagrande Júnior
Self
André Faccioli
Self (archive footage)
Alexandre Fontanetti
Self
Camila Fremder
Self (archive footage)
Marília Gabriela
Self (archive footage)
Gilberto Gil
Self
Bruna Lombardi
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rita Lee filmed her segments while already in palliative care for lung cancer, making every on-screen laugh a genuine act of defiance.
Her 1976 imprisonment for cannabis possession — mentioned briefly here — effectively killed her mainstream career for years, yet she rebuilt herself into Brazil's biggest-selling female artist. The film weirdly skips this.
