Synopsis
The Flamenco Trilogy’s most straightforward narrative is also its most forthrightly theatrical, a modern take on composer Manuel de Falla’s gypsy ballet, dressed up in pink sunsets and hellishly red fires. Set in a dusty Andalusian village, El amor brujo (Love the Magician) is a seductive melodrama of a man (Antonio Gades) whose beloved is haunted by the ghost of another.
Cast
| Carmelo | Antonio Gades |
| Candela | Cristina Hoyos |
| Lucía | Laura del Sol |
| José | Juan Antonio Jiménez |
| Hechicera | Emma Penella |
| Pastora | La Polaca |
| El Lobo/Cantaore | Gómez de Jerez |
| Padre de José | Enrique Ortega |
| Padre de Candela | Diego Pantoja |
| Chulo | Candy Román |
| Cantaore | Manolo Sevilla |
| Rocio | Giovanna |
| Guitarristas | Manuel Rodríguez |
| Antonio Solera | |
| Juan Manuel Roldán |
Credits
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| Producer | Emiliano Piedra |
| Screenplay | Carlos Saura |
| Choreography | Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura |
| Music | Manuel de Falla |
| Editing | Pedro del Rey |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 6:
Carlos Saura’s Flamenco Trilogy
by
Oct 15, 2007
One of Spain’s most acclaimed and prolific directors, Carlos Saura emerged as an artist in the late 1950s under Franco’s dictatorship and immediately made his mark as an incisive, if necessarily allusive, social and political commentator. In such films as The Hooligans (1960), a neorealist . . .
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