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- 2009
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2009
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
Summary A collection of world music framed by elaborate stage production pays homage to music affectionately known at the "Portuguese Blues".
Directed By: Carlos Saura
Written By: Ivan Dias, Carlos Saura
- 2009
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2009
- Unrated
- New Yorker Films
- 1 h 30 m
Fados
70
6.3
Summary A collection of world music framed by elaborate stage production pays homage to music affectionately known at the "Portuguese Blues".
Directed By: Carlos Saura
Written By: Ivan Dias, Carlos Saura
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
70
88% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Fados connects today's leading interpreters with legendary fadistas of the past. And it's the last title to be released under the banner of the venerable New Yorker Films.
A centerpiece of the film is a tribute to the late, legendary Amália Rodrigues, a woman of commanding, majestic beauty and presence, who is seen with her pianist in rehearsal, searching out every nuance of a song she is to perform. Unfortunately, Fado's other performers are not identified.
For those who've never before heard fado, Fados will be a revelation - a window into a music that (like blues music) can be poetic, heartbreaking, melodramatic and redemptive, all at the same time.
As 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.
The movie, set entirely on a beautifully lit soundstage filled with musicians, dancers, mirrors and projection screens, presents some of the country's most acclaimed fadoistas, singing tributes to the art form and some of its greatest legends.
This veteran Spanish director has, in his latest, created both a tribute to an art form and a performance archive.
Saura is formally ambitious--a troupe travels through the film, articulating lyrics in dance--but the movie missteps when departing wholly from the intrinsic nostalgia of its subject, as the seventysomething director imposes his idea of contemporary cool.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 User Ratings
6.3
50% Positive
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Production Company
Duvideo,
Fado Filmes,
Zebra Producciones
Release Date Mar 6, 2009
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Awards
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Goya Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
