Movie

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

Also Known As: U-Carmen

by  Henri Meilhac

Description

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, is well known. Girl (Carmen) seduces boy (Don José), boy becomes completely obsessed, girl leaves

Subject

Operas / Feature films

Details

Published Bangkok : Audio and video, 2005
Language English
Subtitle In Xhosa and Thai dialogues, with optional English and Thai subtitles
Format 1 videodisc (ca. 122 min)
Runtime 122 mins
Location
TCDC Chiang Mai - New Arrival (Multimedia)
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