U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location i...read more
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Le Bal
Pierrot Lunaire
The Conductor
Boy's Choir
Rembetiko
Solo Sunny
Félicité
Ernesto
The Nomi Song
The Making of Monsters
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Fig Trees
Gloria
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
Production Company: Spier Films,
Country: South Africa
Genre: Music, Drama
1h 35m
Not available for United States
1
1
Le Bal
Pierrot Lunaire
The Conductor
Boy's Choir
Rembetiko
Solo Sunny
Félicité
Ernesto
The Nomi Song
The Making of Monsters
Tiny and Ruby: Hell Divin' Women
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Fig Trees
Gloria
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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