El Amor brujo

Unlike Blood Wedding, I don’t think I would say this is very compelling for a viewer who isn’t a fan of flamenco. BW delves into the lives of the dancers, and when it gives way to performance in the second half, it’s an absorbing story excitingly told. This one’s all narrative and a flimsy one at that between bouts of song and dance of varying flair, some afflicted by the decade it was produced in. The dance aspect is just not as intense as in BW, and there is no meta-narrative on top of it. So good stuff for performance/flamenco fans. Not enough transcending that to fully engage anyone else.