Having taken on flamenco ("Sevillanas") and tango ("Tango"), Carlos Saura tackles a third great melancholy music style, directing "Fados," a celebration of Portugal's classic, lamenting acoustic folk songs. The film combines fado performances from top artists, dance from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde and archive footage. In the song centrepieces, artists deliver contemporary versions of fado classics. Lined up fadistas include young female star Mariza as well as Grammy awar... (Full plot summary below)
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Having taken on flamenco ("Sevillanas") and tango ("Tango"), Carlos Saura tackles a third great melancholy music style, directing "Fados," a celebration of Portugal's classic, lamenting acoustic folk songs. The film combines fado performances from top artists, dance from Portugal, Brazil and Cape Verde and archive footage. In the song centrepieces, artists deliver contemporary versions of fado classics. Lined up fadistas include young female star Mariza as well as Grammy award-winner Carlos do Carmo. Renowned diva Amália Rodrigues is remembered through arquive footage while the exploration of fado's influences and roots gives opportunities to embrace prestigious Brazilian performers Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque and the emerging Cape Verdean star Lura.
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| Cinema SignalsJules BrennerIf you're disquieted by something in your life, 88 minutes with this collection of Fados will calm your innermost travails, guaranteed. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonI was familiar with the fado style, but had never heard of any of the performers here, and I still loved this. |
| NYC Movie GuruAvi OfferA soulful and enchanting celebration of fados that will delight fans both old and new. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyThe third segment in Carlos Saura's musical trilogy that also includes Flamenco and Tango. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerFados is basically a collection of musical performances by two dozen practitioners of the form, but Saura always finds a way to make it cinematic. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoThere are no talking heads, but lots of singing heads and sexy dancing bodies, many of them belonging to stars in Spain. In total, there are more than a dozen performance pieces, all stylishly lensed. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezWhile 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. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelMagically, not a traditional tour of the sweet home of fados. . . though some repeated projections become precious, clearly places fados in the world music pantheon. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisAs a production, Fados is pretty with its reflected surfaces and many projected images. But at times it hurts for the bite and texture of life outside that studio. For all the dolorous singing about and shots of streets, it'd be nice to hit one. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsThe effect is a coldly theatrical counterpoint to the hot-blooded sentiments. MORE REVIEWS bullet See an archive of recent movie reviews bullet Joe's Movie Lounge blog bullet Reel Time forum bullet Movie showtimes bullet Movie theaters |
