Carmen (1984 film)

Carmen 1984 is a film directed by Francesco Rosi. It is a film version of Bizets opera Carmen. Julia Migenes stars in the title role, Plcido Domingo as Don Jos, Ruggero Raimondi as Escamillo, and Faith Esham as Micaela. Lorin Maazel conducts the Orchestre National de France.

Rosi selected 1875 for the period and filmed entirely on locations in Andalusia, using Ronda and Carmona and Seville itself to simulate the Seville of that era. He worked with his longtime collaborator, the cinematographer Pasqualino De Santis, and with Enrico Job supervising the sets and costumes. Rosi acknowledged Gustave Dors illustrations for Baron Charles Davilliers Spain which was published in serial form in 1873 as his principal source for the visual design.citation needed He believed that Bizet, who never visited Spain, was guided by these engravings, and shot scenes in some of the exact places that Dor drew.citation needed Julia MigenesJohnsons freckled, gamine Carmen is the chief glory of the production. Her strutting, her dark, messy, frizzy hairher sexual availabilityattract Don Jos and drive him crazy. Carmen, whos true to her instincts, represents everything he tries to repress. But after he has deserted the Army and lost the respectability that meant everything to him, he thinks she owes him lifelong devotion. Carmens mistake was in thinking she could take him as a lover on her own terms. ........

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