Carmen

Name: Carmen
Genre: Drama
Released: September 23, 2022
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Andre Agius, Chakid Zidi, Henry Zammit Cordina, Michela Farrugia, Natascha McElhone

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Good Deed Entertainment | Release Date: September 23, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Andre Agius, Chakid Zidi, Henry Zammit Cordina, Michela Farrugia, Natascha McElhone, Paul Portelli, Pauline Fenech, Peter Galea, Richard Clarkin, Steven Love

Summary: In a small Mediterranean village, Carmen (Natascha McElhone) has looked after her brother, the local priest, for her entire life. When the Church abandons Carmen, she is mistaken for the new priest. Carmen begins to see the world, and herself, in a new light.

Director: Valerie Buhagiar

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Liam Lacey

Sep 23, 2022

Gossamer thin in the plotting but playful and gorgeous to look at, it’s a warm message of midlife liberation. Read full review

Teo Bugbee

Sep 22, 2022

Writer and director Valerie Buhagiar makes the wise decision to orient her film toward what’s pleasurable rather than what’s logical. The Maltese countryside sparkles in the sunlight, and McElhone delights with a charming and slightly loopy performance as the irreverent spiritual leader. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 19, 2022

McElhone mopes in the early scenes and shimmers through the later ones, even as she suffers. “Carmen” becomes a veritable Maltese fashion shoot at times. Read full review

Noel Murray

Sep 23, 2022

Carmen relies too much on coincidences to keep its story going; and Buhagiar threads in a few too many impressionistic flashbacks to the heroine’s youth and to the romance her family forced her to abandon. But McElhone strikes a fine balance between humor and pathos. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Sep 21, 2022

Maltese writer/director Buhagiar emphasizes the character’s transformative path rather than her pitiable starting point, and with the help of some suspension of disbelief and a symbolic pigeon (no, not a Maltese falcon) Carmen comes into her own. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

Oct 14, 2022

When the priest of a small Maltese parish dies, his longtime caretaker and housekeeper (his younger, now-spinsterly sister) finds herself without living or working arrangements. What is she to do to support herself? Such is the lot of Carmen, the title character of this slightly whimsicalWhen the priest of a small Maltese parish dies, his longtime caretaker and housekeeper (his younger, now-spinsterly sister) finds herself without living or working arrangements. What is she to do to support herself? Such is the lot of Carmen, the title character of this slightly whimsical but vastly underdeveloped, allegedly fact-based tale of a woman seeking to discover and reinvent herself at middle age. Writer-director Valerie Buhagiar’s latest tries to keep its story light and bouncy, but it often does so without much direction, purpose or follow-through with regard to the various disconnected incidents that arise. It’s almost as if the picture is trying to get by on a bucket full of charm and the frequent employment of synchronicities, many of which are supposed to seem meaningful but often go without explanation. The result is a largely pointless exercise in trying to tell a tale that should be full of warmth, fun, lightheartedness and redemption. It’s also a missed opportunity to showcase the talent of Natascha McElhone in what should have been one of her best performances in years. But, as it plays now, “Carmen” is, regrettably, more like an inside joke that most of us are being left out of.… Expand

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