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A young girl in 1950s Taubaté becomes a rock music pioneer in Brazil.
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In the late 1950s, Célia Campello is a 16-year-old girl in Taubaté, in the interior of São Paulo. A local celebrity of sorts, she sings on the city's radio, where she has a captive audience. His brother, an aspiring singer, ends up moving to São Paulo, where he is discovered by a talent scout. Then it will be her turn. And this is just the beginning of the career of what became known as Celly Campello, a precursor of rock music in Brazil, and responsible for hits such as Banho de Lua and Estúpido Cupido.
"It's like that expression that when someone, family or situation is treated like an eternal wonder it's like a "margarine commercial". That's more or less what happens with 'Um Broto Legal', which goes beyond: here, director Luiz Alberto Pereira transforms the story of Celly Campello, one of the precursors of rock'n'roll in Brazil, into a kind of "novela das seis". Everything is very light and smooth, without ever weighing too heavily on the story and, also, without ever really delving into it. It's the way of telling how her and her brother Tony's first steps were as artists in the interiorana Taubaté and, little by little, winning the stages, screens and hearts of fans all over Brazil. It's a different cut, more concise and localized, which gives freshness to the film without wasting time showing childhood and things like that. There are no great daring in the story, following a well-expected path, but it should leave fans of Celly and Brazilian music moved."