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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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.
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)
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 ... Read more