The second track «História de Pedro Índio» displays beautiful children’s choir accompanied by exquisite, albeit downbeat, writing for oboe. It’s actually more similar to John Barry’s lush, melancholic style of his late career during the 1990s ( Dances with Wolves, Indecent Proposal, Across the Sea of Time etc).Ī good example is the first track, «Liberdade a Vento», with its solemn, noble, emotional piece for strings, clearly inspired by the music of the famed English composer.
O Tempo e o Vento is slower, more reflective, and also mostly somber, filled with tragedy, sadness and regret. It’s an apt comparison: Guerra’s score is orchestral, lush, romantic, epic in scope and full of emotion.īut while the settings of both movies (a saga of rural families that spans years) and even their posters are similar, describing the score as being just a South American version of Horner’s beloved score would be a disservice to Guerra’s work. O Tempo e o Vento has been compared by film music critic Jon Broxton to James Horner’s Legends of the Fall. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a huge box office hit (about 711.000 tickets sold in the whole country, which is a very low number for a movie of that scale), but it was more successful when it was adapted into a 3-episode miniseries that played in January 2014 on Rede Globo, the biggest TV network in the country.įor the music, director Monjardim turned to composer Alexandre Guerra, making his live action feature film debut after a long string of shorts, TV and documentaries throughout the 2000s. In 2013, the books were adapted into an epic movie, directed by Jayme Monjardim (who had done other grandiose productions for television and cinema), and starring well known local actors. Written by Érico Veríssimo and published between 19, it’s the saga of two rival families, the Terra and the Cambará, and tells a part of Brazil’s history as seen from the southernmost state of the country, Rio Grande do Sul. O Tempo e o Vento, loosely translated as The Time and the Wind, is a classic work of Brazilian literature, a sprawling epic comprised of three books: O Continente (“The Continent”), O Retrato (“The Portrait”) and O Arquipélago (“The Archipelago”).
Alexandre Guerra’s epic orchestral score for Jayme Monjardim’s lavish Brazilian film O Tempo e o Vento (2013) is a rarity these days.
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