U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
Koch Lorber Films | Release Date: March 28, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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88
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Riveting update of George Bizet's "Carmen." Read full review
80
Village VoiceJulia Wallace
This was basically the best idea ever. The setting brims over with the same wicked froth of danger, exoticism, and passion that 19th-century Seville must have had before it got stylized into oblivion. Read full review
80
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
Mr. Hazlewood’s strategy also draws attention to the lack of psychological detail in the central love triangle, which isn’t good. But the music still pierces, the blood still flows, and the overall conception is so original that even when the movie falters in the moment, it dazzles in the memory. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's vivid evidence that great music and stories transcend time and place. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
A vivacious film that is a treat for eyes and ears. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderRichard M. Porton
The film is never dull and often rousing, but this is essentially a conventional version of a classic opera--the attempt to transform it into a critique of macho hubris comes off as an afterthought, and the poverty is just a backdrop. Read full review
60
VarietyRussell Edwards
This version of Georges Bizet's frequently reinterpreted "Carmen" is spoken and sung in the click-punctuated African lingo of Xhosa and adapted to fit yarn's shift south, with a semi-cinema verite style cleverly disguising the artifice of the work's legit origins. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Brilliantly sung by an extremely talented lyric theater company in Cape Town called Dimpho Di Kopane. Whether this all works will be a matter of opinion -- mine is that it does not -- but the experiment is fascinating. Read full review
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