“Poor Things” soundtrack featuring Oscar-nominated Carminho’s Fado

The Portuguese singer appears in the film performing “O Quarto” for Bella Baxter, played by Emma Stone.

The soundtrack to the film “Poor Things” by Yorgos Lanthimos, including Fado composed by Jerskin Fendrix and performed by Carminho, was nominated for an Oscar.

According to the list of nominees for the 96th Academy Awards, “Poor Things” is nominated for Best Soundtrack along with “American Fiction”, “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny”, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Oppenheimer”. “

The soundtrack includes the fado “O Quarto” performed by Portuguese fado singer Carminho, who sings and plays Portuguese guitar in the film.

In the film, Carminho appears on a balcony performing a fado for Bella Baxter, played by the story’s protagonist Emma Stone, in a fantasy Lisbon scenario of an undetermined time, but where there is no shortage of azulejo tiles. Old cobbled streets. , suspended trams between buildings and numerous Nata pasta.

In an interview with Lusa news agency, Carminho recalled participating in the production of “Poor Things” in 2021 in a studio in Budapest, while she was preparing the “Portugisa” album.

Carminho said that the director, who knew fado well, wanted a “certain link between traditional imagery and contemporary imagery” for the film and asked him to play the Portuguese guitar, which was a debut for the fado singer and still is. Rarity experience for women.

“The film talks a lot about feminism and deconstructs the more conservative positions between men and women. For many years, fado has been shaped by very defined roles: women sing, men manage the fado house, play and write poems. He (the director) wants to deconstruct these more calcified structures. I also think that’s my role,” explained the singer.

In addition to Best Soundtrack, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” also earned 10 other Oscar nominations.

The 96th edition of the Oscars will be held on March 10 in Los Angeles.

Lusa