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U-Carmen
A film by Mark Dornford-May
"A piece of arthouse genius!"
THE TIMES OF LONDON
"A rousing and imaginative contemporary adaptation of the 19th century George Bizet opera."
Tom Dawson, BBC
"Classic opera travels to contemporary South Africa and finds a comfortable home amid a shantytown setting."
Russell Edwards, VARIETY
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Official Selection • Toronto International Film Festival
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Official Selection • Cannes Film Festival
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Winner - Golden Bear Award (Best Film) • Berlin International Film Festival
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The most-performed opera in the world gets a new spin in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which sets the famous opera Carmen in modern-day South Africa. The music, translated and sung in Xhosa and mixed with traditional song, gives the film a thrilling synthesis of Xhosa culture and European opera, while still telling the age-old story of love and obsession, duty and desire, jealousy, revenge and madness.
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Drama, World Cinema - 2005 - South Africa - Xhosa - 120 min.
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