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Flamenco is a 1995 Spanish documentary film directed by Carlos Saura with camerawork by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro. The film is entirely musical and dancing vignettes, composed and photographed on a sound stage.
Apr 25, 1997 · Flamenco: Directed by Carlos Saura. With La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar, Joaquín Cortés. As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies.
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- Documentary, Music
- Carlos Saura
- 1997-04-25
Feb 28, 2019 · Flamenco (1995) By Carlos Saura. Estrieto. 581 subscribers. Subscribed. 330. 17K views 5 years ago.
- 98 min
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- Estrieto
Dancer Joaquin Cortes presents the beauty of flamenco in this toe-tapping documentary. Backed by 300 singers, dancers and musicians at a railroad station in Seville, Spain, Cortes displays the poetry infused in every step of the 18th-century dance.
Directed by Carlos Saura. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva.
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- Carlos Saura
A cinematic homage to the most famous of Spanish dances. Emphasizing the mixture of Gypsy, Arab, Jewish, African and Latin elements that is flamenco, both in song and dance, the film also serves as a celebration of a truly popular culture in an increasingly homogeneous world.
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