Flamenco (de Carlos Saura) (1995)
DVD5 Custom | ~98 min | MPEG2 720x576 PAL 16:9 ~5200 kbps avg | 4.02 GB
audio: Spanish | Dolby AC3 2 ch ~224 Kbps | Sub: English, Russian, Spanish
Music, Documentary | 2 nominations
audio: Spanish | Dolby AC3 2 ch ~224 Kbps | Sub: English, Russian, Spanish
Music, Documentary | 2 nominations
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. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularias, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrias, siguiriyas, soleas, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba. Families present numbers, both festive and fierce. The camera and the other performers are the only audience.
Director: Carlos Saura
Stars: La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda and Manolo Sanlucar
Production land: Spain
Premiere Date: 16 June 1995 Spain
IMDb - 7.3 (402 votes)
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