| Blood Wedding | |
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| Directed by | Carlos Saura |
| Written by | Carlos Saura Antonio Artero Antonio Gades Alfredo Mañas |
| Produced by | Emiliano Piedra |
| Starring | Antonio Gades Cristina Hoyos Juan Antonio Jiménez |
| Cinematography | Teodoro Escamilla |
| Edited by | Pablo González del Amo |
| Music by | Emilio de Diego |
Release date |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Blood Wedding (Spanish:Bodas de sangre) is a 1981Spanishmusical film written and directed byCarlos Saura. It was directed and choreographed in theflamenco style. It is the first part of Saura's 1980s flamenco trilogy, and is followed byCarmen (1983) andEl amor brujo (1986).
The film depictsAntonio Gades and his dance company performing a flamenco adaptation ofFederico García Lorca's playBlood Wedding. As with all Saura's flamenco films, the film is overtly theatrical: it begins with the company arriving at the studio and putting on costumes and makeup. The dance is then performed in a bare windowed space with a minimum of props and no set. There are no elaborate costumes and many of the actors wear only their rehearsal clothes.
It was shown out of competition at the1981 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The video clip forFiglio della luna, the Italian version of the 1986 songHijo de la Luna byMecano, has a esthetic related toBlood Wedding.[2]
[...] acompañada también de un vídeo, excelente de factura y medios, dirigido por el propio José María Cano, en el que las reminiscencias lorquianas de la canción quedaban aun más en evidencia a partir de una estética claramente emparentada con las Bodas de Sangre adaptadas en 1981 por Carlos Saura
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