El amor y la muerte

A quiet, cultured documentary that drifts between archival images and live performances, feeling like a slow, melancholic concert with a biography woven through it.

Directed by

Arantxa Aguirre

Genres

Documentary

Starring

Rosa Torres-Pardo, Elisabet Ros, Julien Favreau

Overview

Documentary that recreates the biography of the Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916), his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, his sensitive nature, the struggle to make his way in life despite the family economic straits and his first successes The story, built from vintage images, is interspersed with versions of the Granados repertoire by interpreters such as Rosa Torres-Pardo, Evgeny Kissin, Cañizares, Arcángel, Rocío Márquez, Carlos Álvarez and Nancy Fabiola Herrera, among others.

How it feels

Melancholic, earnest and warm. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Art, music, ambition, grief

Content

No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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