Celebrates fados, Portugal's traditional music.

| Original Score: B | Feb 28, 2013

[A]n inviting and immersive experience

| Original Score: 4/6 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

The third segment in Carlos Saura's musical trilogy that also includes Flamenco and Tango.

| Original Score: B | Jul 3, 2011

The effect is a coldly theatrical counterpoint to the hot-blooded sentiments. MORE REVIEWS bullet See an archive of recent movie reviews bullet Joe's Movie Lounge blog bullet Reel Time forum bullet Movie showtimes bullet Movie theaters

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2009

For those who've never before heard fado, Fados will be a revelation -- a window into a music that (like blues music) can be poetic, heartbreaking, melodramatic and redemptive, all at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2009

If you're disquieted by something in your life, 88 minutes with this collection of Fados will calm your innermost travails, guaranteed.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 23, 2009

Never is his film less than cinematic.

| May 21, 2009

Fados is basically a collection of musical performances by two dozen practitioners of the form, but Saura always finds a way to make it cinematic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2009

[Director] Saura's personal love of fado goes back to his youth, and Fados reflects what is clearly his deeply imaginative, inner relationship with the genre's songs about loss, shifting hopes and elusive happiness.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

That you very likely know nothing about who those legends are concerns Saura not at all; made for aficionados, Fados is virtually context-free.

| Apr 9, 2009

Fados isn't just a director's look at one genre of music, it's a celebration of the special relationship between music, dance and film.

| Original Score: 84/100 | Apr 2, 2009

A soulful and enchanting celebration of fados that will delight fans both old and new.

| Original Score: 8.75/10 | Mar 6, 2009

Will speak to ethnomusicologists and cineastes alike.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 6, 2009

In total, there are more than a dozen performance pieces, all stylishly lensed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2009

I was familiar with the fado style, but had never heard of any of the performers here, and I still loved this.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 6, 2009

Magically, not a traditional tour of the sweet home of fados. . . though some repeated projections become precious, clearly places fados in the world music pantheon.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 6, 2009

While Saura's accommodation of styles old and new represents a humane exercise, the Spanish director does not risk the fearlessness of Tony Gatlif's Vengo.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2009

Fados is Carlos Saura's big-screen film about the musical genre that is the soul music of Portugal.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 6, 2009

| Original Score: B- | Mar 6, 2009