There have been approximately 60 different films & Television plays,besides the classic Opera of this tale of a sex mad girl and her hapless soldier lover. This story has been done so many times, in various ways.
Vicente Aranda directs Joaquin Jorda's screenplay adaptation of Prosper Merimee's classic novel & play.
This is the story ONLY of Bizet's opera Carmen
Pas Vega is an exciting Carmen,full of passion & the ability to drive simple men to do terrible tragic things. Leonardo Sbaraglio is the hapless soldier who is ensnared into Carmen's poisonous web & led to doing bad things.
Jay Benedict is the author Prosper who tells this tale.
There is not much action, BUT there are some very hot sex scenes.
In fact this is almost an NC-17 film.
since I have seen this tale so often in so many guises I was not overly impressed.
It is a very well made film & will be of interest to those that may not know of it,
My not overly enthusiastic review also could be that I miss the fantastic Opera score by Bizet.
See this as you may like it more than I did.
Ratings *** (out of 4) 82 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)
Vicente Aranda directs Joaquin Jorda's screenplay adaptation of Prosper Merimee's classic novel & play.
This is the story ONLY of Bizet's opera Carmen
Pas Vega is an exciting Carmen,full of passion & the ability to drive simple men to do terrible tragic things. Leonardo Sbaraglio is the hapless soldier who is ensnared into Carmen's poisonous web & led to doing bad things.
Jay Benedict is the author Prosper who tells this tale.
There is not much action, BUT there are some very hot sex scenes.
In fact this is almost an NC-17 film.
since I have seen this tale so often in so many guises I was not overly impressed.
It is a very well made film & will be of interest to those that may not know of it,
My not overly enthusiastic review also could be that I miss the fantastic Opera score by Bizet.
See this as you may like it more than I did.
Ratings *** (out of 4) 82 points (out of 100) IMDb 7 (out of 10)