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Flamenco

1995 · 1h 40m · N/A Documentary, Music
Directed by Carlos Saura

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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.

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79%
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Rotten

This 1995 catalog of performances by various artists may represent the historical development of a rich and enthralling art form, but it's presented in such a clinical way it might as well be a list on a chalkboard.

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Fresh

A superb, impassioned concert film.

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh

An irresistible treat for connoisseurs and the uninitiated alike, pic will be a bracing surprise for anyone who has forgotten how exciting music, dance and voice can be.

Deborah Young, Variety
Rotten

Saura's film is both an exciting document of a thriving Spanish art form and a boring documentary.

Susan Sharpe, Time Out
Rotten

The dead spots in the film outnumber the highlights, and a sameness sets in too soon and for too long.

Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle

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