Carmen

2022

Drama / Musical

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 61% · 102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 1489 1.5K

based on novel or book musical usa–mexico border

Plot summary

A young and fiercely independent woman, Carmen, is forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert following the brutal murder of her mother. She survives an illegal border crossing into the US, only to be confronted by a lawless volunteer border guard. When the border guard and his patrol partner Aidan become embroiled in a deadly standoff, the pair is forced to escape together.

Director

Benjamin Millepied Photo
Benjamin Millepied

Top cast

Paul Mescal Photo
Paul Mescal as Aidan
Melissa Barrera Photo
Melissa Barrera as Carmen
The D.O.C. Photo
The D.O.C. as Curry
Elsa Pataky Photo
Elsa Pataky as Gabrielle
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.05 GB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
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2.15 GB
1920*804
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
23.976 fps
1 hr 56 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by teiixeiral 5 / 10

An extremely try hard attempt at creating "Cinema".

Carmen is a movie that tries to be too many different things at once. It wants to be a musical, a modern dance recital, a drama about ptsd and romance, and an art house forward film. The end result as you can imagine is a slow, bloated mess.The positives are the performances from Melissa and Paul. This isn't an easy film to act in due to the nature of the story, but they both commit to their roles and deserved a better director.Outside of the cinematography which accurately captured the mood of the story, there's nothing else to praise. Benjamin Millepied's cinematic vision is pretentious and dreadful. His eye for directing is better suited for the stage, not film.
Reviewed by stevelivesey-37183 6 / 10

An interesting mess. An enigma dressed as a conundrum.

So the director who choreographed Black Swan, gives us a reimagining on Carmen. It's a musical, it's a dance spectacular.its drama filled study of the border issue in the USA. It's an arthouse study of all of the aforementioned. To summarise, someone has tried to get a quart into a pint pot and ended up with a hot mess. An interesting hot mess. But a hot mess nonetheless.You can a movie about all of the above but not all at once.That said, the movie is very well made. There is religious symbolism in the washing of feet, allusions to PTSD, slow motion action scenes, nice cinematography, the director is not without talent and the acting by the leads is very good. It is slow but somehow never boring and worth a watch if you consider yourself a cinephile.
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