New Latin American cinema

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

New Latin American cinema · Around 2000 a new generation of Latin American directors attracted international attention. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Guillermo del Toro and Walter Salles mixed local stories with big themes and often worked outside Hollywood. The Argentine composer Gustavo Santaolalla became the best-known voice of this wave. He himself plays the ronroco, a small Andean lute, and allows a great deal of silence. His music for Amores perros (2000), Diarios de motocicleta (2004) and Babel (2006) sounds intimate and spacious. He won an Oscar for Babel. For El laberinto del fauno (2006), Javier Navarrete by contrast wrote a fairy-tale orchestral score built around a lullaby. Together they show that a small line-up and folk instruments can say as much as a large orchestra.

Listening

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  De Ushuaia a la Quiaca · Gustavo Santaolalla, 2004
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  Babel · Gustavo Santaolalla, 2006
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  Long, Long Time Ago · Javier Navarrete, 2006

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Tango