U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha
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74 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

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  • Summary: Based on Bizet's opera "Carmen," this film is sung and spoken in Xhosa, one of South Africa's eleven official languages.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    88
    Riveting update of George Bizet's "Carmen."
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    80
    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.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Julia Wallace
    80
    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.
  4. Variety
    Reviewed by: Russell Edwards
    60
    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.

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
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  1. KatH
    10
    Excellent version of Carmen. It was refreshing to see it from another cultural experience.
  2. BrianO.
    9
    I saw this at the Indianapolis International Film Festival last year and the director and star were there - maybe I was star-struck, but I thought it was magnificent and Malefane has a truly lovely voice. May require being an opera fan for some, but I'm not terribly into opera and I loved it. A unique movie-going experience.… Expand

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