Summary 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 bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, 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. View more details
Directed : Carlos Saura
Written : Carlos Saura
Stars : Joaquín Cortés La Paquera de Jerez Merche Esmeralda Manolo Sanlúcar
Genres : Music Documentary
Release date : Jun 15, 1995
Countries of origin : Spain
Language : Spanish
Production companies : Canal+ España Junta de Andalucía Juan Lebrón Producciones
Summary 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 bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, 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. View more details
Genres : Music Documentary
Release date : Jun 15, 1995
Countries of origin : Spain
Language : Spanish
Production companies : Canal+ España Junta de Andalucía Juan Lebrón Producciones
