Carmen (2003)

Directed by

Vicente Aranda

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom, Italy, Spain

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French writer meets a Spanish woman named Carmen and hears her story. She is a free-spirited woman who works in a factory and gets involved in a passionate and jealous relationship with a soldier named José.

romanticjealouspassionateperiod-dramatragicsultryintensedramatic

What happens

Carmen is a 2003 Spanish drama film directed by Vicente Aranda. The script was written by Aranda and Joaquim Jordà adapting the classic romance of the same name by Prosper Mérimée. Director Vicente Aranda based the plot on Mérimée's original 1847 novella about jealousy and passion, not its famous operatic adaptation by Bizet from 1875, changing some details about the love story between Carmen (Paz Vega) and José (Leonardo Sbaraglia). As in the novella, author Mérimée (Jay Benedict) is portrayed as a French writer who finds the "real" Carmen in early 19th century Spain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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