U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
2005 · 122 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 756 VOTES · DIR. Mark Dornford-May
Overview
U-CARMEN is a feature film based on Georges Bizet's 19th-century opera that was filmed on location in a modern South African township setting. The energy, compassion, and heat of township life in all its elements create a constantly visually interesting and dynamic background for the unfolding of the story, which owes part of its huge popularity to the thrilling combination of a violent gangster tale with a passionate, almost supernatural love story. As it unfolds, it explores issues of fame and wealth, the position of a strong and independently minded woman in a very masculine society and, perhaps most importantly, the incomprehensible attraction between abuser and victim. Bizet's opera, based on Prosper Merimée's novel, premiered in Paris on March 3, 1875. Set in a poor area of Seville, the story of the magnetic woman who seduces, loves, and ultimately destroys her lover and herself...
Dialogue Timeline — 977 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:48 In Spain
00:08:55 Hot and dusty at the barracks
00:11:57 You will find us welcoming
00:15:21 That? Cigarette factory, sir.
00:18:27 Promises in your ear Like smoke will disappear
00:22:07 Beware her love!
00:27:05 If you don’t want me then I'm yours
00:31:06 "find my son, my dear child
00:34:11 You're being stupid.
00:38:52 There was a fight.
00:42:17 it’s best if there’s another one
00:44:58 I will save you
00:54:13 The girls get to their feet
01:00:09 in return for sex I’ll forget everything...
01:08:47 They all say that...
01:13:51 Look, here’s the flower that you gave me
01:18:04 -Dear God -And come with me
01:21:02 So you give us no choice but to detain you
01:26:50 Who we should be wary of?
01:31:36 There are three of them waiting down there.
01:35:19 Scared, all alone in this place
01:40:34 only death will separate us
01:49:16 Take my advice
01:53:01 It can’t be the end