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EXCLUSIVE: Sébastien Laudenbach’s Viva Carmen, an animated retelling of Georges Bizet’s celebrated opera Carmen, debuts successful Cannes Directors’ Fortnight this week and Deadline uncover a first clip.
In Seville successful 1945, a pulsating municipality of sailors and small-time crooks, teenage Salvador, adjunct to nan talented weapon grinder Antonio, encounters a captivating young gypsy woman, Carmen.
Her stunning beauty and independent tone group nan municipality abuzz, but Antonio’s mysterious expertise to glimpse nan early successful sharpened blades foretells a tragic destiny for Carmen astatine nan hands of a soldier, José. With unwavering resolve, Salvador musters an eclectic set of misfit thoroughfare kids, led by nan spirited Belén, to situation nan unyielding threads of destiny and protect Carmen from inevitable doom.
Laudenbach antecedently made waves pinch animated features The Girl Without Hands and Chicken for Linda!, which he co-directed pinch Chiara Malta.
The head recounts really nan thought of making an animation of nan Bizet’s classical caller came to him done shaper Pierre-Henri Léon.
“Passionate astir Bizet’s work, he suggested I see a movie that would return arsenic its starting constituent nan children’s chorus that opens nan opera pinch nan aria “La Garde Montante” and which, thereafter, plays norole successful nan narrative,” he recounts.
“The thought of moving connected a activity arsenic powerful arsenic Carmen willing maine for much than 1 reason. Like galore people, I was acquainted pinch nan activity without really knowing it; I had its astir celebrated arias successful my head, and I knew nan lyrics to immoderate of them. Carmen occupies a very unsocial spot successful nan history of opera: it is nan astir often performed opera successful nan world, moreover though it was a nonaccomplishment astatine nan clip of its premiere. It is besides 1 of nan astir often staged and interpreted stories of femicide successful creation and literature.”
A Folivari film, Viva Carmen is produced by Damien Brunner, Thibaut Ruby and Pierre-Henri Léon. Global Constellation handles sales.
