Carmen

Carmen

1983 · 102 min · ES · 6.7 (58 votes)
Dir. Carlos Saura · Starring Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol, Cristina Hoyos, Juan Antonio Jiménez
DramaRomance

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.

VIBE

A visually stunning, operatic melodrama where the fiery passion of dance and music ignites a destructive obsession. It feels like a fever dream, blurring the lines between performance and reality as love curdles into dangerous jealousy.

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jealousydancerbased on opera