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...
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Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK) U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of ...
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The Classic International Cinema Series will be screening U-Carmen this Sunday April 29th at 2pm at the Harvey B. Gantt Center.
U Carmen
Ein Film von Mark Dornford-May nach der Oper von Bizet.
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Trailer of U-Carmen eKhayelitsha a Xhosa adaptation of Bizet's opera Carmen.
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