Picture: Rio De Janeiro/ BBC

By Sam Shedden

On Thursday night the BBC’s film festival Art Screen officially launched at the Glasgow Film Theatre. The occasion was marked by the premiere of director Julien Temple’s documentary ‘Rio 50º Carry On Carioca.’

The film took the audience on a colourful and musical tour of the eponymous Brazilian city as it gears up to host two massive global sporting events, The FIFA World Cup this summer and the Olympics in 2016.

Rio is as much an audio experience as it is a visual one. Temple, 61, intersperses his movie with classic Brazilian music ranging from mellow Bossa Nova lounge music to raucous samba beats in an attempt to capture the essence of what it means to be a ‘Carioca’ (citizen of Rio De Janeiro).  The history of the city and the social inequality (one third of the inhabitants live in…