Izaline Calister: Lady Sings the Tambú (2007)

Everything in the life of vocalist Izaline Calister focuses on music. For two years, Miluska Rosalina filmed her during performances in the Netherlands, during rehearsals, at home and during singing lessons. On the island of Curaçao she found the key: the tambú, the very rhythmic improvisation-based music of Curaçao with its roots in Africa. The film shows a vocalist getting closer to her "own" music by uniting two apparently contradictory opposites: the spontaneous and sensual tambú from her home island with professional and rehearsed jazz in Holland. However, the contradiction is not real: when Izaline sings the jazz classic Summertime from Porgy and Bess, it sounds like "a Sunday afternoon on the island of Curaçao". Who can possibly remain unaffected by so much sweltering heat?