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Fados
  • Sat 4/26, 2:45pm - 4:18pm FFados (0 cool kids going to Castro, 429 Castro Street)
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    About: This uniquely Portuguese song genre of longing, sadness and nostalgia, whose roots have been traced to the early 19th century, is enjoying a fast-spreading new vogue. Like the blues, fado, with its strumming guitars and plucking mandolins, can be lively or poignant as it contemplates unrequited love, homesickness and the general malaise of being down on your luck. As with his other musical films like Sevillanas (SFIFF 1993), Iberia (SFIFF 2006), Flamenco and Tango, Carlos Saura brings together a range of the finest practitioners of the art, including Mariza, Camane, Carlos do Carmo and Chico Buarque. But adding artists from Mozambique, Brazil, Cabo Verde (including a hip-hop interlude) takes us into unpredictable side streets, leavening the traditional with the talents of Lila Downs, Caeta...
    Tags: world cinema

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