Flamenco
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 bularèas, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrèas, siguiriyas, soleès, 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.
N/A
HD
Documentary, Music
1995
100 min
Prime VideoStreaming Channels
Movie Info:
- Full Name : Flamenco
- Duration : 100 min
- Languages : Spanish
- Writers : Carlos Saura
- Directors : Carlos Saura min
- Imdb : 7.4 (578 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.7 (1463 votes)
- Actors : La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlècar, Joaquèn Cortès
Movie Storyline
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 bularèas, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrèas, siguiriyas, soleès, 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.