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Mar 6, 2009 · Much as he did in his 1990s documentaries “Sevillanas” and “Flamenco,” this veteran Spanish director has, in his latest, created both a tribute to an art form and a performance archive.
- Carlos Saura
Fados is a 2007 Portuguese film directed by Carlos Saura. The film, a fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, explores Portugal 's most emblematic musical genre, fado , and its spirit of saudade (melancholy).
Mar 6, 2009 · Fados: Directed by Carlos Saura. With Chico Buarque, Camané, Carminho, Carlos do Carmo. A drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.
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- Documentary, Musical
- Carlos Saura
- 2009-03-06
If, in his earlier musicals, Iberia, Flamenco, Tango…, he based his work on dancing, in Fados he makes a special effort with the plot and image to reflect the birth of a suburban, dockland music which is in itself a synthesis of all of the music born towards the end of the 19th century.
Sep 21, 2019 · The film combines fado performances from top artists, dance from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde and archive footage. In the song centrepieces, artists deliver contemporary versions of fado classics. Lined up fadistas include young female star Mariza as well as Grammy award-winner Carlos do Carmo.
Mar 4, 2009 · Essentially a nonnarrative of songs strung together to feature length (the less hospitable will call it a glossy music-video compilation), Saura’s film incorporates such fado subgenres as ...
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Carlos Saura’s Fados, from an original idea by Ivan Dias (in Portuguese with English subtitles), casts a wondrous spell as the third installment of the Spanish director’s musical trilogy, which also includes Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998). A fado is sung by a woman, or a man, playing alone with eyes closed, accompanied by a couple of ...
