Joaquín Cortés: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
by Russell Thomas
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Actor: Joaquín CortésDirector: Russell Thomas
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-04-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony U.S. Latin
DVD Reviews of Joaquín Cortés: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
DVD Review: An excellent dancing project gone sour
Summary: 2 Stars
I love the way Joaquin Cortez dances. He not only dances, he erupts with passion in every pass and move he makes. Joaquin, keep dancing like this and thou shalt be called the new Lord of the Dance. I would buy any disc or video featuring Joaquin just for his talent alone. He needs no music to express his ways. If to such a big talent you add an excellent group of flamenco musicians, also giving their best on each act, and an excellent audio mixing and recording, you should be getting a thrilling video to share with you dear ones. Right?Wrong... I'm telling you why.
I thought I bought a video featuring Joaquin Cortes, but I actually bought a series of short-lenght scenes, from which I hardly could put together the evolution of Joaquin's work. The video editor, Mr Fernandez, made a good work of synchronizing the changing of the scenes with the changes in rithm, but that done with flamenco renders an endless string of scenes, blended in an unrecognisable flow, each scene lasting less than 5 seconds. I understand that during the performance, some scenes of the musicians, the crew, and the cuorum have to be inserted so we are given a broader view of the atmosphere created by the artists. This should be done in a proportion of 75% for the main artist and 25% for the rest. However, in this case, we are fed images in the reverse proportion - 25% Joaquin, 75% of the rest. [...] Unfortunately, the 25% of Joaquin's images, are also an erratic scan of his dancing. While he is performing a series of spins and evolutions, the cameramen are giving us an extreme close-up of his face, his hands, even his [...], and not of his feet, which are the main dish in this banquet. And when we are given a (very short) full take of him, the lower section of the screen does not shows his feet, or they are blocked by the head of the first row attendants. Very frustrating.
Joaquin outshines other dancing performances like the shows featured by Michael Flatley, or the stiff dancers of Riverdance. Even other sound-focused shows as Stomp!, but with such a poor quality of edition, his talent is greatly diminished. [...] BR>This is my lowest-value DVD purchase of my whole collection. BR>Cheers!
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