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Carmen [videorecording] / Vicente Aranda

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Spanish Summary language: Spanish Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Publication details: Spain Star Line TV Productions, S.L. TeleMadrid Alythia Limited 2007Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) sound, color. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:
  • PN1997 .C376 2003
Summary: From case cover: Durante un viaje por España, el azar convierte al escritor francés Prosper Mérimée en testigo de una historia apasionante. La naturaleza libre y enigmática de una mujer llamada Carmen, su belleza meridorional, su carácter arrebatado y pasional, hacen que el sargento José se convierta en víctima y protagonista de acontecimientos extraordinarios, de amores y pasiones incontrolables, en una cadena de fatalismo, celos y sangre. Con cada nuevo amante de Carmen, con cada nuevo episodio de amor, pasión y celos, José da un paso hacia la marginalidad y la delicuencia. La muerte tiñe una y otra vez de rojo las manos de José hasta que, finalmente, tras disparar contra el último amante de Carmen, intenta llevársela lejos y empezar una nueva vida. Pero ni las súplicas ni las amenazas le sirven de nada. En vano se humillará ante Carmen, ofreciéndole una vida próspera y feliz. Las apasionantes palabras de amor caen en el vacío y en la hacia la navaja desnuda. ¿Qué otra cosa podía hacer?. Si cada episodio de amor es una pequeña muerta, ¿cómo se puede retener todo el amor de Carmen, cómo se puede abrazar el fuego abrasador de Carmen?. Translated Case Cover (Google Translate): During a trip through Spain, chance turns the French writer Prosper Mérimée into a witness of an exciting history. The free and enigmatic nature of a woman named Carmen, her meritorious beauty, her rapturous and passionate nature, make Sergeant Jose become the victim and protagonist of extraordinary events, of uncontrollable loves and passions, in a chain of fatalism, jealousy and blood. With each new lover of Carmen, with each new episode of love, passion and jealousy, José takes a step towards marginality and delinquency. Death dyes Jose's hands red again and again until, finally, after shooting against Carmen's last lover, he tries to take her away and start a new life. But neither the pleas nor the threats serve him at all. In vain he will humble himself before Carmen, offering him a prosperous and happy life. The passionate words of love fall into the void and into the naked knife. What else could I do? If each episode of love is a small dead girl, how can you keep all of Carmen's love, how can you embrace Carmen's scorching fire? From IMDb: Based on the novel by Prosper Merimee, CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and a spoken-for woman, Carmen (Paz Vega). It is told in flashback as the young soldier, stripped of his decorations, explains all in a prison cell. He tells of the love he had for Carmen and how it proved to be destructive.
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DVD - Video DVD - Video SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-A: DVD Cabinet A PN1997 .C376 2003 Available Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles. 000207

Based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée.

From case cover:
Durante un viaje por España, el azar convierte al escritor francés Prosper Mérimée en testigo de una historia apasionante. La naturaleza libre y enigmática de una mujer llamada Carmen, su belleza meridorional, su carácter arrebatado y pasional, hacen que el sargento José se convierta en víctima y protagonista de acontecimientos extraordinarios, de amores y pasiones incontrolables, en una cadena de fatalismo, celos y sangre.
Con cada nuevo amante de Carmen, con cada nuevo episodio de amor, pasión y celos, José da un paso hacia la marginalidad y la delicuencia. La muerte tiñe una y otra vez de rojo las manos de José hasta que, finalmente, tras disparar contra el último amante de Carmen, intenta llevársela lejos y empezar una nueva vida.
Pero ni las súplicas ni las amenazas le sirven de nada. En vano se humillará ante Carmen, ofreciéndole una vida próspera y feliz. Las apasionantes palabras de amor caen en el vacío y en la hacia la navaja desnuda. ¿Qué otra cosa podía hacer?.
Si cada episodio de amor es una pequeña muerta, ¿cómo se puede retener todo el amor de Carmen, cómo se puede abrazar el fuego abrasador de Carmen?.

Translated Case Cover (Google Translate):
During a trip through Spain, chance turns the French writer Prosper Mérimée into a witness of an exciting history. The free and enigmatic nature of a woman named Carmen, her meritorious beauty, her rapturous and passionate nature, make Sergeant Jose become the victim and protagonist of extraordinary events, of uncontrollable loves and passions, in a chain of fatalism, jealousy and blood.
With each new lover of Carmen, with each new episode of love, passion and jealousy, José takes a step towards marginality and delinquency. Death dyes Jose's hands red again and again until, finally, after shooting against Carmen's last lover, he tries to take her away and start a new life.
But neither the pleas nor the threats serve him at all. In vain he will humble himself before Carmen, offering him a prosperous and happy life. The passionate words of love fall into the void and into the naked knife. What else could I do?
If each episode of love is a small dead girl, how can you keep all of Carmen's love, how can you embrace Carmen's scorching fire?

From IMDb:
Based on the novel by Prosper Merimee, CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and a spoken-for woman, Carmen (Paz Vega). It is told in flashback as the young soldier, stripped of his decorations, explains all in a prison cell. He tells of the love he had for Carmen and how it proved to be destructive.

DVD video; Dolby Digital & DTS 5.1; surround; PAL; Region 2; 2.35:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles.

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