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| Carmen | |
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 French theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Francesco Rosi |
| Screenplay by | Francesco Rosi Tonino Guerra |
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| Produced by | Marcel Dassault Patrice Ledoux Alain Poiré |
| Starring | Julia Migenes Plácido Domingo Ruggero Raimondi Faith Esham |
| Cinematography | Pasqualino De Santis |
| Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni Colette Semprún |
| Music by | Georges Bizet (from the original opera) |
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| Distributed by | Gaumont Distribution |
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Running time | 152 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
Carmen is a 1984 French-Italian film directed byFrancesco Rosi. It is a film version ofBizet'sopera,Carmen.[1]Julia Migenes stars in the title role,Plácido Domingo as Don José,Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, andFaith Esham as Micaela.Lorin Maazel conducts theOrchestre National de France.
The film premiered in France on March 14, 1984, and in the U.S. on September 20 of that year. In 1985, the film was nominated for theGolden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film.
Rosi selected 1875 for the period and filmed entirely on locations inAndalusia, usingRonda andCarmona andSeville itself to simulate the Seville of that era.[2] He worked with his longtime collaborator, the cinematographerPasqualino De Santis, and with Enrico Job supervising the sets and costumes. Rosi acknowledgedGustave Doré's illustrations of Spain[3] for BaronCharles Davillier'sSpain (which was published in serial form in 1873) as his principal source for the visual design.[4] He believed that Bizet, who never visited Spain, was guided by these engravings, and shot scenes in some of the exact places that Doré drew.
Pauline Kael reviews the film favourably in her collection of movie reviews,State of the Art:
Julia Migenes-Johnson's freckled, gamine Carmen is the chief glory of the production. Her strutting, her dark, messy, frizzy hair—her sexual availability—attract Don José and drive him crazy. Carmen, who's true to her instincts, represents everything he tries to repress. But after he has deserted the Army and lost the respectability that meant everything to him, he thinks she owes him lifelong devotion. Carmen's mistake was in thinking she could take him as a lover on her own terms.[5]
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In late 2011 the film was released on both a regular, anamorphically enhanced Region 1 DVD, and onBlu-ray.
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