U-Carmen

A FILM BY Mark Dornford-May

A piece of arthouse genius!

-THE TIMES OF LONDON

A rousing and imaginative contemporary adaptation of the 19th century George Bizet opera.

-Tom Dawson, BBC

Classic opera travels to contemporary South Africa and finds a comfortable home amid a shantytown setting.

-Russell Edwards, VARIETY

Synopsis

The most-performed opera in the world gets a new spin in U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, which sets the famous opera Carmen in modern-day South Africa. The music, translated and sung in Xhosa and mixed with traditional song, gives the film a thrilling synthesis of Xhosa culture and European opera, while still telling the age-old story of love and obsession, duty and desire, jealousy, revenge and madness.