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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 · When a fadista like Mariza, one of the most renowned modern interpreters of fado, performs, she stretches out her arms and moves her hips seductively, beckoning with her body as well as with her...
- Carlos Saura
Mar 4, 2009 · “Fados,” which takes its title from a tradition of emotive, melancholy singing derived in the poor port-side areas of early nineteenth-century Lisbon (but with African and Brazilian origins), and...
- Michael Koresky
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
Sep 18, 2007 · This concert film blissfully synthesizes various modes of fado, but while Saura’s accommodation of styles old and new represents a humane exercise, the Spanish director does not risk the fearlessness of Tony Gatlif’s Vengo—not because Fados lacks a conventional narrative, but because a reverential Saura does not elucidate how fado music ...
May 20, 2017 · 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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After over two years of research into the subject, Carlos Saura takes an enormous step forward in his approximation to music. 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 ...
