U-Carmen (2005)
Directed by Mark Dornford-May
Genres - Drama, Romance, Music |
Sub-Genres - Film-Opera, Musical Drama |
Release Date - Mar 28, 2007 (USA - Limited) |
Run Time - 126 min. |
Countries - South Africa |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Jason Buchanan
Bizet's Carmen gets a cultural transplant as director Mark Dornford-May transports the events of the tragic opera to South Africa in this musical concerning a seductive cigarette-factory worker and her attempts to romance a policeman already set to marry another woman. Originally mounted on-stage by the innovative Dornford-May, this version of Carmen reworks Bizet's familiar tunes by adopting them into Xhosa to tell the tale of Carmen's doomed affair with otherwise involved policeman Jongikhaya (Andile Tshoni).
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Keywords
extramarital-affair, lover, police-officer, South-Africa, woman