• Director(s):

    CASTILLO (CARMEN)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, GRENADE PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2003

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV

Since the death of Amalia Rodriguez, Mísia is universally acknowledged to be the greatest living fado-singer. This film weaves an intimate portrait of the singer and her songs.

Mísia was born in Porto to a Catalan mother and a Portuguese father. She began to sing fado in the 1990s, and soon started to look for ways of injecting new life into this typically Portuguese form of expression, setting the texts of the greatest contemporary Portuguese authors, including the poet Fernando Pessoa, to music. Her outstanding voice and rigorous, exacting approach have made her the uncontested queen of contemporary fado.
Entirely shot on location in Lisbon, this documentary takes us to the Meccas of Lisbon's fado scene - the Clube de fado, the Tasca do Carera and the splendid palace of the Marquis de Fronteira, where Mísia and her backing musicians perform the most beautiful songs in her repertoire.
In Mísia's own words, "Saudade is not just the fragrance of things past: it is also the presence of things which were so alive that they can never die."