Eclipse Series 6: CARLOS SAURA'S FLAMENCO TRILOGY: SAURA, Carlos: Carmen (1983)

SAURA, Carlos (Spain)
Carmen [1983]
Eclipse Series 6
DVD


Carlos Saura's biggest international box-office success was this self-reflexive meditation on Prosper Mérimée's Carmen story. Antonio Gades plays a choreographer who gets involved with his neophyte lead dancer (Laura del Sol) and grows dangerously jealous. Depicting the joys and anguishes of their affair in between rehearsals for Gades's ballet, Carmen is a visually hypnotic hall of mirrors in which the dancers become inseparable from their personae.

101 minutes
Color
Monaural
in Spanish
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2007
Director/Writer


Carlos Saura was 51 when he directed Carmen.


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