Based on Bizet's classic work but relocated to a South African township U-Carmen is a hugely original piece of film making from director Mark Dornford-May. The film is sung and spoken in Xhosa and is further evidence of the continuing influx and growing importance of African cinema. Featuring a truly outstanding performance from Pauline Malefane in the title role the film won the Golden Bear at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival and has captured the imaginations of critics the w
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Mark Dornford-May directs this drama based on Bizet's classic work 'Carmen', but relocated to a South African township, and sung and spoken in Xhosa.
Bizet's CARMEN gets a cultural transplant as director Mark Dornford-May transports the events of the tragic opera to South Africa in this musical concerning a seductive cigarette-factory worker and her attempts to romance a policeman already set to marry another woman. Originally mounted on-stage by the innovative Dornford-May, this version of CARMEN reworks Bizet's familiar tunes by adopting them into Xhosa to tell the tale of Carmen's doomed affair with otherwise involved policeman Jongikhaya (Andile Tshoni).
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