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U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

6.0/10

2hr 02mins

Country:ZA

2005

MusicDramaRomance
Spoken Languages: English,

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...

Budget

$0.00

Production companies

Spier Films

Genre

Music, Drama, Romance

Runtime

2hr 02mins

Rating

6.0/10

Release Date

2005-12-22

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