Fados | |
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Directed by | Carlos Saura |
Written by | Carlos Saura Ivan Dias |
Produced by | Ivan Dias Luis Galvao Teles Antonio Saura Leslie Calvo |
Starring | Mariza Camane Carlos Do Carmo Cuca Roseta Catarina Moura Lila Downs |
Cinematography | Jose Luis Lopez-Linares Eduardo Serra |
Edited by | Julia Juaniz |
Music by | Carlos do Carmo |
Production companies | Fado Filmes Duvideo Zebra Producciones Ventas Internacionales Latido Films |
Distributed by | Zeitgeist Films |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Portugal |
Language | Portuguese |
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).
Under the musical supervision of Carlos do Carmo, Fados completed Saura's musical trilogy form with Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998). Saura deploys mirrors, back projections, lighting effects, and lush colors to frame each song.
Fados contains homages to Maria Severa, Alfredo Marceneiro, and Amália Rodrigues, as well as turns by modern stars like Mariza and Camané. Saura expands the songs (which traditionally involve just a singer and a guitarist) with dance and encompasses other nationalities of Portugal's former colonies and idioms (such as hip hop, flamenco and reggae). [1]
The soundtrack for the film includes several songs that were included in the film:
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal, but probably has much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar Rui Vieira Nery states that "the only reliable information on the history of fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best. But even that information was frequently modified within the generational transmission process that made it reach us today."
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