Carmen - 1926
- Director Jacques Feyder
- Product Code: NA-4006-DRA-LT
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Carmen has neither a past nor a future. She lives only in the present. For her love is of no importance, just a passing whim. Love's essence is precisely the variability that Don José hate most of all. This version is filmed in Spain, far from picturesque style, instead dry and tragic.
This silent Carmen by-passes Bizet and goes back to the Prosper Mérimée novel, and thus differs intererestingly from versions by DeMille, Lubitsch, Peter Brook and others. Instead of femme fatale Carmen bringing ruination to an innocent soldier, you get generous, not very bright Carmen coming into the orbit of a Don Jose who combines good looks and a lethally macho temperament. Feyder adopts a naturalistic approach, and although at first one fears that Meller is going to spend the entire film striding about with her hands on her hips, she soon settles into the most low key Carmen of the lot. Among the colourful desperados roistering in Lillas Pastia's tavern, a young Luis Buñuel is eminently recognisable.
| Technical Sheet | |
| Title | Carmen |
| Original Title | Carmen |
| Year | 1926 |
| Language | Mute (Soundtrack) |
| Subtitle | Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese |
| Colors | Black and white |
| Gender | Drama |
| Duration | 160 Min. |
| Direction | Jacques Feyder |
| Countries of origin | France |
| Cast | Raquel Meller, Fred Louis Lerch, Gaston Modot, Jean Murat, Victor Vina, Guerrero de Xandoval, Charles Barrois, Georges Lampin, Raymond Guérin-Catelain, Andrée Canti, Luis Buñuel, Pedro de Hidalgo, Arthur Duarte, Charles Morat, Joaquim Peindo, Hernando Vines, Roy Wood |
| Other details | |
| Observation | Original French subtitles fixed to the film |
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