Playlist #6
 

PostED ON 19.10.2023

Every day, discover one or more tracks from a film by Wim Wenders, for whom music is an integral part of the story.

Alfama by Madredeus in Lisbon Story

It's like a dream: at the end of a long, eventful car journey, a road trip from the north to the south of Europe, you arrive in Lisbon, which has not yet become an "airbnb city" with more tourists than inhabitants. In the big house where you have a room (alas, the As janelas verdes hotel is full), a group of musicians is rehearsing. They are Madredeus, and the staccato (or pizzicato, pardon my musical ignorance) of their neo-fado hit Alfama, named after their neighbourhood, gives you goose bumps. As well as being an attentive hostess, the singer with the golden voice, Teresa Salgueiro, is as beautiful and sweet as an angel. Who knows if she doesn't also fancy the funny German sound engineer who wants her? A burlesque fable, a meditation on the power of images and the harmfulness of digital technology, Lisbon Story resonates with the spellbinding songs of the Lisbon-based group, a little forgotten band that is touching to rediscover.

A. F.

SCREENINGS

Lisbon Story by Wim Wenders (1994, 1h43)
Décines – Thursday, 19 October at 8pm
UGC Confluence – Saturday, 21 October at 7pm