Since I love Carlos Saura’s films, I’ve long wanted to see some of his musical films that I’m still not going to see, I chose Carmen, 1983, the middle of his famous flamenco trilogy, the first because of the title Bloody Wedding.
As the name implies, the film is based on the novella Prosper Mérime and the opera by Georges Bizet “Carmen”,
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Since I love Carlos Saura’s films, I’ve long wanted to see some of his musical films that I’m still not going to see, I chose Carmen, 1983, the middle of his famous flamenco trilogy, the first because of the title Bloody Wedding. As the name implies, the film is based on the novella Prosper Mérime and the opera by Georges Bizet “Carmen”, the content of which is known to everyone, so it makes no sense to retell. But the originality of the presentation of the material by Carlos Saura is that in the film the plot of the works is literally intertwined with the lives of real characters - the choreographer Antonio (Antonio Hades), who plays the role of Jose, falls in love with the performer of the role of Carmen, she is also called Carmen (Laura del Sol), and we can not be sure whether the characters involuntarily repeat the plot, whose heroes they play, and everything in life ends as tragically as in the works performed, or still what we see in the end, occurs in the production. All this is accompanied both by the music of Bizet, and the music and performance of guitarist Paco de Lucia, who plays himself, as well as Antonio Hades, the famous choreographer, as well as the performance of flamenco - this unforgettable Spanish dance, because they stage a flamenco ballet, wanting to return the two French composed on Spanish soil. The film is quite interesting, just from a visual and musical point of view, the plot here is not particularly important.
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