Carmen (1915 Cecil B. DeMille film)

Carmen is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film is based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mrime. The existing versions of this film appear to be from the reedited 1918 rerelease.

Carmen was praised as a triumph of superb acting and magnificent scenery in Motion Picture Magazine. No small share of this artistic success is due to Mr. Wallace Reids sympathetic interpretation of Don Jos, they added. The Carmen film will, in its own way, stand alongside The Birth of a Nation as an epochmaker, Photoplay said in their review. One of their few complaints was on the films faithfulness to Carmens character of the Mrime story.The NewYork Tribune described it as The most interesting example of the new art of the photoplay. Miss Farrars personality is admirably suited to the screen, and her facial expression was excellent. Geraldine Farrars Carmen makes as dramatic an appeal to the eye as her voice ever did to the ear, said The San Francisco Call amp Post, The resolution of Geraldine Farrar, the beautiful and gifted star, to employ her talents in the attaining of success in the films is one of the greatest steps in advancing the dignity of the motion pictures. Miss Farrars Carmen in the films is the greatest triumph the motion picture has yet achieved over the speaking stage. ........

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