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May 2, 1983 · With Antonio Gades, Laura del Sol, Paco de Lucía, Marisol. A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very Spanish version of Bizet's dramatization of Prosper Merimee's novella Carmen. The choreographer Antonio falls in love with Carmen, the main dancer.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Carlos Saura
- 1983-05-02
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The choreographer Antonio is preparing a performance of George Bizet's opera Carmen, intending to infuse it with Spanish music and flamenco dances. He collaborates with Paco, a guitarist who adapts the original music for his instrument. Despite searching his flamenco school for the perfect Carmen, Antonio struggles to find the right fit. His best d...
Box office
The film was the highest-grossing Spanish film in the United States at the time, grossing $3.1 million. It was surpassed by Pedro Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988).It sold 2,168,737 tickets in Germany and 871,824 in France.
Critical reception
According to Lexikon des internationalen Films, "Saura's approach distinguishes itself from conventional adaptations primarily by making the process of adaptation itself the focal point and by delving into the connections between art and life. Expertly crafted dance sequences and an enthralling musical score (featuring guitarist Paco de Lucia, who reinterprets Bizet's compositions within the framework of Spanish folk culture) obscure some weaknesses within the narrative sections of the film."...
Awards and nominations
The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was submitted to the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the Technical Grand Prize and the award for Best Artistic Contribution. Additionally, it earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the 1984 César Awards for Best Foreign Film, and the 1984 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Laura del Sol. Actress: Carmen. Laura del Sol was born on 27 November 1961 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for Carmen (1983), Tôt ou tard (1999) and Amelia Lópes O'Neill (1991).
- Actress
- November 27, 1961
- Laura del Sol
Antonio (Antonio Gades) is a choreographer who falls madly in love with the sultry star (Laura del Sol) of his flamenco-infused production of "Carmen." While his feelings for Laura are...
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Laura del Sol (born 27 November 1961) is a Spanish flamenco dancer and film actress, specially well known for her title role in Carlos Saura's 1983 film Carmen. She worked with Saura and Antonio Gades in El Amor brujo , and in Italy , she acted in Giuseppe Tornatore 's debut Il Camorrista .
Saura's biggest international box-office success was this self-reflexive meditation on both Bizet's popular opera Carmen and the original novella by Prosper Mérimée. Antonio Gades plays a choreographer who gets involved with his neophyte lead dancer (Laura del Sol), and grows dangerously jealous.
The camera, mimicking a branch in a river, introduces the viewer to the face of a woman named Carmen (Laura del Sol). This introduction reveals lines and curves, spring colors and hovering steps which combined furnish her into a piece of decoration within the world of Carmen but simultaneously carve her out of it as well.
