Carlos Saura, Antonio Gades, Federico García Lorca | 1981 | ES | 72' | EN subs

A troupe of flamenco dancers and musicians arrive and get ready for a dress rehearsal. Ceremoniously, they apply their make-up, display the pictures they carry as amulets, tune the guitars or smoke a cigarette to calm the nerves. The intermingling of clothes, bodies, props and voices reaches such a beauty that we are left wondering if the performance did not already start much before we began watching.

Bodas de sangre presents itself self-consciously as the work of three men: Lorca, Gades, Saura. The legendary dramatic poet, the dancer and choreographer that popularized flamenco internationally and the crucial filmmaker that so well portrayed the moral decline of the Spanish old guards. All three share a deep love for popular and traditional cultures which in their works is enlivened by continual experimentation.

In this adaptation of Lorca’s theater play, dance takes over the place of words: a flamenco highly stylized at moments that, however, always preserves the roughness, passion and joy of the popular. Hoarse deep voices and lamenting or vivacious guitars accompany the drama. And the exceptional cinematography composes a second succession of movements, creating a multidirectional intensity on the floor. ---

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