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Mar 4, 2009 · Now at age 77, Saura seems able to put forth such visually luxurious films with almost mechanical precision, and certainly “Fados,” which was unsurprisingly in part a commission from the ...
- Michael Koresky
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” is Carlos Saura’s big-screen film about the musical genre that is the soul music of Portugal.
- Carlos Saura
Apr 2, 2009 · In Carlos Saura’s eighth film about music, he tackles the obscure and archaic Fado, a form of song that remains in its purest form just two guitarists and a singer. Fados explores its past...
Sep 18, 2007 · Saura projects the bodies of singers and dancers onto the surface of enormous screens, catching their reflections at such angles that solos are transformed into duets, troupes into armies. Saura’s latest exaltation of a native dance may not frazzle the nerves, but its hybridization of interplaying cinematic and musical techniques is still an ...
May 20, 2017 · With Lisbon as a backdrop, the film explored the complicit dialogue between music and the city, tracing the evolution of Fado from Afro-Brazilian origins to today's new generations. Carlos Saura called him FADOS because he understood that, unlike his Spanish and Argentine counterparts, the Portuguese genre contained multiple identities.
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Sep 8, 2007 · The latest of Carlos Saura's romanticized cultural time capsules, "Fados," is as rich as its predecessors, an elegant setting for the shimmering, melancholy music of Portugal (by way of Spain).
