Flamenco

Directed by Carlos Saura

With La Paquera de Jerez, Paco de Lucía, Fernanda de Utrera, Antonio Toscano and Matilde Coral

The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance: the up-tempo bularías, a brooding farruca, an anguished martinete, and a satiric fandango de huelva. There are tangos, a taranta, alegrías, siguiriyas, soleás, a guajira of patrician women, a petenera about a sentence to death, villancicos, and a final rumba.