Carmen

Carmen

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Release Date

5/6/1983

Runtime

102 mins

Overview

While rehearsing a flamenco ballet adaptation of Bizet's opera “Carmen”, Antonio, the choreographer, falls in love with the main dancer, Carmen, a fiercely independent woman. Antonio is slowly consumed by jealousy and possessiveness towards Carmen, just like Don José in the original opera, blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Budget

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Revenue

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A flamenco ballet rehearsal becomes the stage for a man's descent into jealous obsession, where the line between creating art and consuming the artist blurs into something dangerously destructive. The film mirrors its own subject matter, a tragedy written into movement.

Mood

TenseDread-soaked

Themes

ObsessionLoveArt and creation

Tone

Operatic

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Stylized genrePainterly

Structure

Single location

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