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Mar 6, 2009 · If you want a sense of the glorious emotional excesses that permeate fado, the soul music of Portugal, you need only listen to the legendary fadista Amália Rodrigues, who tremulously immortalized...
- 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).
Aug 18, 2017 · A musical film by Carlos Saura
- 88 min
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- Viacheslav Chagaryn
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...
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
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 ...
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Sep 6, 2007 · A Portuguese musical mode borne out of early 19th century Lisbon, and characterized by long, ornate, emotionally heavy ballads lamenting lost loves and shattered dreams, the fado began to experience a stunning and unpredicted resurgence in the early 21st century.
