formalismo and that school of hispanic literature that emphasize form a function and or form over function and have little to do with saura el amor brujo . this be saura final work in his flamenco trilogy that begin with bodas de sangre and include carmen . a with those two film and saura base this cinematic ballet on a previous work and manuel de falla el amor brujo . the other two film in the trilogy be base on lorca bodas de sangre and merimee and bizet novel and opera and carmen . these three classical work be not example of formalismo . rather and they be prime example of both the realistic and impressionistic school of literature which under the creative mastery of saura become sensual re creation of love and passion and betrayal and and death . the love story here supercede form and attain a thematic content worthy of the great literary work they portray . the starkness of the set be for symbolic purpose and not for form nor for function . the dilapidated and dusty set represent the emptiness of the soul that have lose great love and or have be deceive by a bewitching love . the set take on color when candela dance the fire dance and and again at the end when lucia sacrifice herself to be the eternal lover of the bewitch ghost of jose and thus set candela free from his cursed memory . saura never let u forget the tension between reality and fiction a the dawn rise on a new day over a theatrical set free of obsession with death and love that bewitch the lover .