Blood Wedding

I love following threads from one experience to the next, and nothing’s better than when I catch one that leads me from film to music to literature and back again. A lifetime’s praise to Carlos Saura for opening up the world of flamenco to me; in the month or so between my last Saura film and this I’ve been listening to a lot of music, classical to popular, and returning to his cinema again just solidifies my new love. This film, which simply follows a company in rehearsal and only momentarily delves into the lives of individual dancers then gives way to performance, is as captivating and exciting as anything I have yet experienced.