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Carlos Saura - Carmen Details

1983

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Starring	Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Paco De Lucia, Pepa Flores
Director	Carlos Saura
Genres	Drama, World Cinema

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Carlos Saura - Carmen

CARMEN, the second in Carlos Saura's flamenco dance trilogy, which also includes BLOOD WEDDING and EL AMOR BRUJO, is staged as an opera within an opera. To counter what many Spaniards feel are the ineffectual cliches and cultural trappings of CARMEN--the fans and knives and the roses between the teeth--Saura and dancer-choreographer Antonio Gades have integrated into the original story a parallel subplot about love, jealousy, and violence in the lives of the dancers performing the ballet. This contemporary love affair between Antonio (Antonio Gades) and Carmen (Laura del Sol) clearly follows the plot of the opera. The entire subplot takes place in rehearsals, and includes a delightful scene of the entire troop spontaneously bursting into a parody of the campy March of the Toreadors.
Saura adds scenes that depict the fantasies of the characters, which is an element that the director uses in many of his films. He blends the emotions of the dancers in their real lives into their dancing in the performance, which brings to life--in a powerful and vivid fashion--the overly familiar characters of Georges Bizet's opera.

Starring	Antonio Gades, Laura Del Sol, Paco De Lucia, Pepa Flores, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiminez
Director	Carlos Saura
Studio	ELEVATION
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 37 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, World Cinema
Language	DVD: Spanish
Subtitles	DVD: Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1983 To Rent: DVD: 25 Mar 2002

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- "...A visual delight....[A] stark artistry of pure dance and mesmerizing mixture of classic music and modern flamenco..."
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- - Variety
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  Revisiting Carmen
  
  I remember first seeing 'Carmen' with 'Blood Wedding' at the old Hampstead Everyman, over twenty years ago. Back then, a younger me found ... read more »
  
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  Carmen in clogs
  
  This is an interesting take on Carmen, weaving the life of the dancers and musicians preparing a performance into the plot of Merimée's great story ... read more »
  
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  Sometimes you shouldn't go back
  
  Of all the decades so far, arguably the 1980s is wearing least well. There's something about the knitwear and the 'trendy' jeans and red bootlets ... read more »
  
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  - 25 Jun 2011 at 19:48
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  fresh slant to a well known classic
  
  Similar to French Leuitenant's Women where a production of the story is encompessed by the actors playing out the story in'real life'.
  
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  CARMEN, the second in Carlos Saura's flamenco dance trilogy, which also includes BLOOD WEDDING and EL AMOR BRUJO, is staged as an opera within an opera. To counter what many Spaniards feel are the ineffectual cliches and cultural trappings of CARMEN--the fans and knives and the roses between the ...