Eclipse Series 6 - Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (Blood Wedding / Carmen / El Amor Brujo) (Criterion Collection)
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Actor: Enrique Ortega, G??mez de Jerez, Giovana, Maria Campano, Paco de Luc??aDirector: Carlos Saura
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 275 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-16
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Eclipse from Criterion
DVD Reviews of Eclipse Series 6 - Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (Blood Wedding / Carmen / El Amor Brujo) (Criterion Collection)
DVD Review: extraordinary!
Summary: 5 Stars
From the consistent 5 star reviews, one can safely assume that there is something extraoridnary about these Carlos Saura productions with Antonio Gades flamenco artist and choreographer. I often explore foreign films out of a sort of arm chair world traveler curiosity. Not all are worth writing about, but these certainly are. I was held spellbound with each passing dialogue, one could easily say "libretto", if by that one means a timeless story - one that never seems cliche or dated in any way.
You will also be spellbound by the music, the dancing, the acting, the emotive mood, gestures, facial expressions, body language. I honestly have rarely seen anything so flawlessly performed. This is one you will be proud to have in your collection. Indeed, I don't think your collection could be considered at all complete without it! What a marvel of direction and cinematography.
DVD Review: Esper? muchos...
Summary: 5 Stars
...si, muchos a?os para encontrar "El Amor Brujo" en formato NTSC. Cuando vi por primera vez la pel?cula sal? del teatro pensando que era lo mejor que hab?a visto hasta entonces. Aun pienso similar. Y ahora la tengo en casa!DVD Review: Fantastico!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want a sweet taste of flamenco - this is a perfect set. Starting w/Blood Wedding - progressing to Carmen - and finishing w/El Amor Brujo. Fantastico! DVD Review: Brilliance
Summary: 5 Stars
My love of flamenco music was born when I heard Carlos Montaya playing when I was about 25 years old. I am now 73 years old and when I hear flamenco it is through my heart not my ears, I watched this dvd Eclipse Series 6 Carlos Saura's Flamenco on my 107 " plasm tv, it was breathtaking, such brilliance and beauty, watching it over and over again it moves me every time.DVD Review: Be Transported to Spain
Summary: 5 Stars
These three absolutely exquisite movies comprise the best Criterion box set I have experienced so far. The Ozu, Kurosawa and Bergman sets comprise lesser works by masters and the Fuller and Bernard sets attempt to bring to light forgotten directors. The Carlos Saura set is neither filler nor forgotten curios. The Flamenco Trilogy is three fully mature works of the highest cinematic quality.
I do not dance, cannot dance and, as a rule, do not care to watch others dance. Thus, it is the extremely rare dance themed movie that does anything for me. All three of the Flamenco Trilogy held me spellbound. The music, the beautiful bodies in their perfectly timed languid yet impassioned choreography, the colors and the tragic stories of love and violence. Saura & the great flamenco dancer/choreographer Antonio Gades have fashioned narratives that skillfully render stories within stories as both Blood Wedding and Carmen feature dress rehearsals and "behind-the-scene" looks at the flamenco companies. This trilogy is a treat for any music lover.
Description of Eclipse Series 6 - Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (Blood Wedding / Carmen / El Amor Brujo) (Criterion Collection)
One of Spanish cinema's great auteurs, Carlos Saura brought international audiences closer to the art of his country's dance than any other filmmaker, before or since. In his Flamenco Trilogy-Blood Wedding, Carmen, and El amor brujo-Saura merged his passion for music with his ongoing exploration of Spanish national identity. All starring and choreographed by legendary dancer Antonio Gades, the films feature thrilling physicality and electrifying cinematography and editing-colorful paeans to bodies in motion as well as to the cinema that so eloquently, and artfully, captured them.In the wake of Criterion's release of Cr?a Cuervos, his haunting Franco-era allegory, comes Carlos Saura's famed trilogy, crafted in collaboration with producer Emiliano Piedra, cinematographer Teodoro Escamilla, and choreographer Antonio Gades. Blood Wedding (1981) starts out like one of Robert Altman's behind-the-scenes efforts. As the reed-thin Gades describes his initiation into dance, Saura captures every backstage detail, from the bickering of the musicians to the mementos the dancers scatter about their stations. The action culminates in a dress rehearsal of Alfredo Manas's Bodas de Sangre, a flamenco-ballet version of Federico Garc?a Lorca's play. On the day of her betrothal, the Bride (Cristina Hoyos) runs off with Leonardo (Gades), a married man. To appease his Mother (Pilar C?rdenas), the Groom (Juan Antonio Jim?nez) sets out to avenge the family name.
In Carmen (1983), Saura's biggest international hit, he takes on Georges Bizet's operatic adaptation of Prosper M?rim?e's novella. Fiction bleeds into fact as the performers incarnate their parts. The narrative begins with Gades's search for a dancer to play the tragic heroine. He finds her in headstrong hoofer Carmen (Laura del Sol) with whom he embarks on an affair. As with Gades, Cristina Hoyos plays a character much like herself, a dancer relegated to a supporting role (composer/guitarist Paco de Luc?a also appears under his own name). Instead of a full-length performance, Carmen proceeds through a series of rehearsals and offstage encounters. The more time he spends with his leading lady--described in the text as a "she-wolf"--the more possessive Gades becomes. He demands fidelity, Carmen longs for freedom. Finally, in a fit of rage, he solves their problem--permanently. Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo (1986) opens on a stage set made up like a gypsy village. (As with the previous films, there is no audience, though the dancers never break character.) Two men agree that their children, Jos? and Candela, will marry when they are grown. The years go by and a wedding comes to pass, though Carmelo (Gades) secretly desires Candela (Hoyos), and Luc?a (Carmen's Laura del Sol) feels the same about Jos? (Jim?nez). Then Jos? is killed in a knife fight, but every evening Candela dances with his ghost, so she remains blind to Carmelo's devotion. Of the trilogy, El Amor Brujo ("Love, the Magician") features the least dancing, making it less satisfying, but just as passionate--and more optimistic--than its tragic predecessors. For aficionados of dance on film, Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy belongs on the shelf with The Red Shoes and West Side Story (his trio is also filled with finger-snaps and switchblades). For those who wish to dig deeper, Saura followed up with the related documentaries Sevillanas (1992) and Flamenco (1995), which would have rounded out this set nicely. As with the other entries in Criterion's Eclipse Series (focusing on international masters, like Ingmar Bergman and Louis Malle), this collection may be devoid of extras, but it still represents one of the best deals around. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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