The music of Bizet's Carmen hides the French spirit and Spanish passion. After all, who wouldn't know the immortal opera hits - the famous Habanera, or the aria of the bullfighter Escamillo. But what if there is something more behind the story of the flight of love?
In the beginning, there was a slim short story by the French writer Prosper Merimée about Don José, who, due to his foolish passion for the savage gypsy, deserted the war and became a smuggler and murderer. Carmen, directed by Tomáš Pilar, returns to the original short story and reveals other layers of individual characters - the characters here are mainly people who came from completely different backgrounds. It's not just about the fleeting and unfettered love of Carmen, with whom the jealous José can't cope. It is a clash of two worlds - an orderly, neat world of José and Micaëla bound by rules, and a world of gypsies and smugglers living day by day, lawless and controlled by immediate impulses. Their worlds suddenly intersect, but this difference causes tension and conflict, which leads to the complete destruction of both of them. None of them are able to prevent this, because neither is willing or able to back down.
