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14 March 1984 (France)
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A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful factory worker (Carmen)...
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Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 9 wins
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8 nominations
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(3 articles)
Q&A: Emmy Rossum Plans to Name Her Children Oscar, Tony, and Grammy
(From Vanity Fair. 13 November 2009, 8:09 AM, PST)
Priyanka or Kareena - who will be Benegal's Carmen?
(From BollywoodWorld. 20 January 2009, 2:18 AM, PST)
(From Vanity Fair. 13 November 2009, 8:09 AM, PST)
Priyanka or Kareena - who will be Benegal's Carmen?
(From BollywoodWorld. 20 January 2009, 2:18 AM, PST)
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Excellent performances and awesome filming
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Julia Migenes | ... | Carmen (as Julia Migenes-Johnson) |
| Plácido Domingo | ... | Don José |
| Ruggero Raimondi | ... | Escamillo |
| Faith Esham | ... | Micaëla |
| François Le Roux | ... | Moralès |
| John-Paul Bogart | ... | Zuñiga |
| Susan Daniel | ... | Mercédès |
| Lillian Watson | ... | Frasquita |
| Jean-Philippe Lafont | ... | Dancaïre |
| Gérard Garino | ... | Remendado |
| Julien Guiomar | ... | Lillas Pastia |
| Accursio Di Leo | ... | Guide |
| Maria Campano | ... | Manuelita |
| Cristina Hoyos | ... | Dancer |
| Juan Antonio Jiménez | ... | Dancer |
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Bizet's Carmen
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Runtime:
152 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.75 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) |
Dolby (35 mm prints)
Certification:
Iceland:L |
West Germany:6 (f) |
Norway:12 |
Australia:G |
Argentina:Atp |
Finland:K-8 |
France:U |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:PG
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The first film version of the opera to use spoken dialogue between all the musical numbers rather than being sung all the way through. This is the way Bizet intended the opera to be performed; the dialogue was set to music by composer Ernest Guiraud after Bizet's death, in order to make the realism of the opera less shocking to a nineteenth century audience (based on the assumption that music made the realism less "painful".)
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Featured in Il cineasta e il labirinto (2004)
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Julia M-G is amazing! Despite not being the most physically stunning of women, she radiates such fire that you cannot help but see how every man she walks by falls in love with her version of Carmen. Placido Domingo, of course, is superb (and it's cool to see him when he was young and relatively slender). The movie is shot beautifully, on location in Spain, and the little details of the setting add to the pleasure of watching this wonderful film. I'll admit up front that I'm not a real opera connoisseur. In fact, there are not that many operas I really like. This movie is pretty much the entire reason I started enjoying opera at all, and it has become for me the standard against which I judge all renditions of Carmen. Obviously, most Americans won't like this movie, but then again, it wasn't made for them.