Carlos Saura

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Carlos Saura - Tango review by Salsatap from West Sussex

Best piece of work this man has directed 17 April 2006
...I have previous Flamenco works of Carlos Saura. He had gradually developed his concepts of starting in the real world and sucking you into the fantasy of dance and music. ... Read customer review

Fados (2009)
Starring: Chico Buarque de Hollanda, Camané, Carlos do Carmo
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
A drama steeped in Portugal's Fado music culture.

30% from 6 members
Currently unavailable

Goya en Bordeaux (1999)
Starring: Francisco Rabal, Jose Coronado, Dafne Fernandez
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
Acclaimed painter Francisco de Goya reflects on his turbulent career and tempestuous relationships while living out his final days in exile. (Spanish with English subtitles)

67% from 23 members
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Carlos Saura - Tango (1998)
Starring: Miguel Angel Sola, Cecilia Narova, Carlos Rivarola
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
In Carlos Saura's TANGO, a well-known theater director, Mario (Miguel Angel Sola) attempts to produce a tango extravaganza in Argentina. He wants to show the breadth and depth of tango--both the music and the dance--not just in isolated music and dance numbers, but with a story that shows the way ..read more »

57% from 684 members
Not currently released

Carlos Saura - Flamenco (1994)
Starring: Joaquín Cortés, Paco Toronjo, Enrique Morente
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva.

59% from 349 members
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El Amor Brujo on DVD (1986)
Starring: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Laura Del So
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
A flamenco dance troupe prepare and perform the 'Blood Wedding' in this musical film based on a play by Federico Garcia Lorca and written and directed by Carlos Saura which tells of a bride who runs away with her lover on her arranged wedding day. After the wedding, the groom is stabbed and killed ..read more »

35% from 6 members

Carlos Saura - Carmen on DVD (1983)
Starring: Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Paco De Lucia
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
CARMEN, the second in Carlos Saura's flamenco dance trilogy, which also includes BLOOD WEDDING and EL AMOR BRUJO, is staged as an opera within an opera. To counter what many Spaniards feel are the ineffectual cliches and cultural trappings of CARMEN--the fans and knives and the roses between the ..read more »

66% from 592 members

Blood Wedding on DVD (1981)
Starring: Antonio Gades, Cristina Hoyos, Antonio Gades/ Cristina Hoyos
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
"Blood Wedding" is set in a rural village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the intense and passionate story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. Using traditional flamenco Carlos Saura brings Federico Garcia Lorca's work to the screen.

64% from 95 members

Cria Cuervos (1976)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Monica Randall, Ana Torrent
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
In Madrid, the orphan sisters Irene, Ana and Maite are raised by their austere aunt Paulina together with their mute and crippled grandmother after the death of their mother and their military father Anselmo. Ana is a melancholic girl, fascinated by death, after seeing her mother having a painful ..read more »

72% from 16 members
Due for release on 20th August 2012

madriguera, La (1969)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Per Oscarsson, Teresa del Río
Director: Carlos Saura
Certificate:
Teresa (Geraldine Chaplin) and Peter (Per Oscarsson) settle down in their new home after their marriage. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth. The two try to work through their problems and succeed ..read more »

30% from 2 members
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Fados - 1.5 stars
Goya en Bordeaux - 3.5 stars
Carlos Saura - Tango - 3.0 stars
Carlos Saura - Flamenco - 3.0 stars
El Amor Brujo - 2.0 stars

Carlos Saura - Carmen - 3.5 stars
Blood Wedding - 3.0 stars
Carlos Saura - Flamenco - 3.0 stars
Carlos Saura - Tango - 3.0 stars
Cria Cuervos - 3.5 stars

madriguera, La - 1.5 stars
Fados - 1.5 stars
El Amor Brujo - 2.0 stars
Goya en Bordeaux - 3.5 stars
Cria Cuervos - 3.5 stars

Antonio Gades - 3 times - show films
Cristina Hoyos - 3 times - show films
Geraldine Chaplin - 2 times - show films
- 1 times - show films
- 1 times - show films