Adorned in oranges, purples, and golds, and unfolding on shimmering soundstages flanked by scrims and screens of varying sizes, “Fados” creates a universe unto itself, an enclosed festival space meant ...

MADRID — Leading French media group TF1 has inked with Spanish sales agent Latido Films for all French rights to Carlos Saura’s Portuguese song and dance pic “Fados.” Produced by Antonio Saura’s Zebra ...

Fado is a style of Portuguese music that is impossible to define. The only way to even begin to understand fado is to hear it. So Carlos Saura doesn’t try to define it. In his documentary “Fados,” ...

“Fados,” the final film in Carlos Saura’s glorious musical trilogy that includes “Flamenco” (1995) and “Tango” (1998), celebrates Portugal’s definitive, enduring musical form with its stately, sensual ...

Having made gorgeous, erotic, bluntly titled performance films about flamenco (1995’s “Flamenco”) and tango (1998’s “Tango”), Spain’s Carlos Saura aims his gaze at Portuguese fado singing. Like those ...

“The Fado” is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and contemplating a roiling black Atlantic. It has survived to the ...

Lisboa, 9 oct (EFE).Lisboa, 9 oct (EFE). — El valor de la película “Fados” como puente entre los dos países ibéricos y divulgación del inmortal género musical luso le ha valido hoy al director de cine ...

Fado is a school of music and singing born of African and Brazilian roots, first flourishing in the port towns and poor, working-class neighborhoods of 19th-century Lisbon, Portugal. Like American ...

Documentary. Directed by Carlos Saura. In Portuguese with English subtitles. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At the Sundance Kabuki.) The great Brazilian singer Caetano Veloso is onstage by himself, singing a ...