U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha

Time	Thursday, February 10 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location	Leacock 26
Created By	African Studies Students' Association, Ledah McKellar
More Info	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445776/ 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, is well known..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNmxQJd3AI