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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
Oct 2, 2009 · Saura explains his feelings about fado, his intentions with the movie, and some of his process, and this is backed by excellent footage from the set, from construction through rehearsal to the filming.
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 ...
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
Saura emphasizes how émigrés from Portugal’s former colonies have nourished fados, bringing to it their own feelings and rhythms, even with hip hop, rejuvenating a genre that dictatorships had tried to co-opt. Rousing footage and songs from the 1974 Carnation Revolution, which overthrew a military dictatorship, illustrate how the people ...
Sep 11, 2009 · Venerable Spanish director Carlos Saura, who has explored other forms of regional music in earlier films (such as Tango and Flamenco), pays tribute to the genre in this stylishly photographed performance piece that features an exhilarating fado competition with older and younger performers on a set recreated by Saura to resemble an old Lisbon ...
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...
