Blood Wedding (1981 film)

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Blood Wedding
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Directed by Carlos Saura
Written byCarlos Saura
Antonio Artero
Antonio Gades
Alfredo Mañas
Produced by Emiliano Piedra
Starring Antonio Gades
Cristina Hoyos
Juan Antonio Jiménez
CinematographyTeodoro Escamilla
Edited byPablo González del Amo
Music byEmilio de Diego
Release date
  • 9 March 1981 (1981-03-09)
Running time
72 minutes
CountrySpain
LanguageSpanish

Blood Wedding (Spanish : Bodas de sangre) is a 1981 Spanish musical film written and directed by Carlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in the flamenco style. It is the first part of Saura's 1980s flamenco trilogy, and is followed by Carmen (1983) and El amor brujo (1986).

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The film depicts Antonio Gades and his dance company performing a flamenco adaptation of Federico García Lorca's play Blood Wedding . As with all Saura's flamenco films, the film is overtly theatrical: it begins with the company arriving at the studio and putting on costumes and makeup. The dance is then performed in a bare windowed space with a minimum of props and no set. There are no elaborate costumes and many of the actors wear only their rehearsal clothes.

It was shown out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. [1]

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Influences

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References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Blood Wedding". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
  2. Peral Vega, Emilio (2024). "De mil y una historias". Mecano: Inspiración poética y genio musical (in European Spanish) (1ª ed.). Madrid: Guillermo Escolar Editor. p. 14. ISBN   978-84-19782-51-9. [...] acompañada también de un vídeo, excelente de factura y medios, dirigido por el propio José María Cano, en el que las reminiscencias lorquianas de la canción quedaban aun más en evidencia a partir de una estética claramente emparentada con las Bodas de Sangre adaptadas en 1981 por Carlos Saura