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The Bahia-born superstar Caetano Veloso is a huge fan of filmmakers Federico Fellini and Giulietta Masina. On this CD--recorded in San Marino in 1997--the angel-voiced Veloso is supported by a Brazilian combo featuring the tasty string arrangements of cellist and longtime collaborator Jacques Morelenbaum. Veloso and his cohorts pay a heartfelt homage to these brilliant Italian film legends in a sweet and swinging South American way. Veloso's evocative compositions, such as the sepia-toned "Trilhos Urbanos" and "Lua, Lua, Lua, Lua," recall his boyhood days watching films such as La Strada and Nights in Cabiria at the local cinema. Veloso's silken, Portuguese-tinged rendering of Nino Rota's "Que Nao Se Ve (Como Tu Mi Vuoi)" adds a different New World flavor to the Italian-based music. With his sexy treatments of Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the timeless bossa nova "Chega de Saudade" from Black Orpheus by Antonio Carlos "Tom" Jobim, Caetano Veloso delivers a lyrical letter to a medium that continues to inspire him. --Eugene Holley Jr.