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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)

ALL 12/22/2005 (xh) Music, Drama, Romance 122 Min
  • Release
    12/22/2005
  • Production
    Spier Films
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
  • Original language
    xh
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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...

  2. Story

  3. Ronelle Loots

    Editor



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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005) 122 Min

ALL 12/22/2005 (xh)
Music, Drama, Romance
  • Release 12/22/2005
  • Production
    Spier Films
  • Original title U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
  • xh
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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...

  1. Mark Dornford-May

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Ronelle Loots

    Editor

  4. Ross Garland, Mark Dornford-May

    Producer



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