Malu on a Bicycle
Brazil. 2010. Dir.: Flávio R. Tambellini. Digital projection. 90 min. Romantic comedy.
Original Portuguese version with English subtitles
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Based on the novel by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the film tells the story of Luiz Mario, a São Paulo night-club impresario and a classic "bon vivant", who is also an avid collector of love affairs. He is surrounded by all types of women, with whom he has torrid flings, but he is never able to get emotionally involved with his conquests. Until one day, while passing by Rio de Janeiro, he falls head-over-heels for the carioca Malu, who practically runs him over on her bike while riding down Leblon's beach bike path. The couple's fervent romance is abruptly thrown into disarray when an enigmatic love letter is discovered. From then on, the story between the two lovers is turned upside-down. Luiz Mario is consumed by jealousy and his emotions slowly seep into his relationship, destroying everything.

Screenplay: Marcelo Rubens Paiva | Director: Flávio R. Tambellini | Editor: Sérgio Mekler, Quito Ribeiro
Original Music: Dado Villa-Lobos | Executive Producer: Silvia Costa | Casting: Ciça Castello | Cinematography by: Gustavo Hadba | Production Companies: Downtown Filmes  | With: Maria Manoella, Marcelo Serrado, Fernanda de Freitas, Marjorie Estiano.


Awards in Festivals:
Paulínia Festival 2010:
Prize for best direction - Flávio R. Tambellini
Award for Best Actor - Marcelo Serrado
Award for Best Actress - Fernanda de Freitas


Director's Biography:

Co-founder of the company Tambellini Filmes, Flávio Tambellini Ramos is one of the most important producers in Brazil. Performs several functions in the arts and media, is especially known as a film director and television and is also a theatre director.

Malu on a Bicycle is his third feature-length fiction film adapted from a literary work. Bufo & Spallanzani in 2001, is an adaptation of a novel by Rubem Fonseca and The Passenger - Adult Secrets, held in 2007 is based on the book Cesario Mello Franco.

As a producer, Flávio Tambellini Ramos is internationally known for co-producing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg, The Tune and The Oyster and the Wind, by Walter Lima Jr., Mutum, Sandra Kogut, featured in the Fortnight Directors of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007, Foreign Land, by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas and even Orpheus, of Carlos Diegues. Flávio Tambellini also directed and produced several documentaries for television and film.