Synopsis
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. Depicting the ups and downs of their affair in between rehearsals for Gades’s ballet, Carmen is a visually hypnotic hall of mirrors in which the dancers become inseparable from their personas.
Cast
| Antonio | Antonio Gades |
| Carmen | Laura del Sol |
| Paco | Paco de Lucía |
| Cristina | Cristina Hoyos |
| Juan y marido | Juan Antonio Jiménez |
| Escamillo | Sebastián Moreno |
| Pepe Girón | José Yepes |
Credits
| Director | Carlos Saura |
| Producer | Emiliano Piedra |
| Screenplay | Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura |
| Based on the novella by | Prosper Mérimée |
| From the opera by | Georges Bizet |
| Choreography | Antonio Gades and Carlos Saura |
| Costume design | Teresa Nieto |
| Editing | Pedro del Rey |
| Music | Paco de Lucía, Regina Resnik and Mario del Mónaco |
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One of Spain’s most acclaimed and prolific directors, Carlos Saura emerged as an artist in the late 1950s under Franco’s dictatorship and immediately made his mark as an incisive, if necessarily allusive, social and political commentator. In such films as The Hooligans (1960), a neorealist . . .
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