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Carmen (2022)

Drama | 87 minutes
3,50 1 votes

Genre: Drama / Romance

Duration: 87 minuten

Country: Malta / Canada

Directed by: Valerie Buhagiar

Stars: Natascha McElhone, Steven Love and Michaela Farrugia

IMDb score: 6,3 (705)

Releasedate: 23 September 2022

Carmen plot

In a small Mediterranean village in Malta, Carmen has been caring for her brother, the priest of the local church, since she was 16. When she is almost fifty, he dies and Carmen is suddenly abandoned by the church. Subsequently, she begins to see the world, and herself, in a new light.

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Carmen (2022).

It turns out there are two of them - this one, and a somewhat pretentious and for me not really successful effort from director Millepied, with very beautiful images and a hip cast with Paul Mescal as figurehead and Melissa Barrera as eye candy.

So this is not that movie. This is the opposite in almost every way.

This film is about how you pick up your life when the bottom is knocked out at the age of fifty, when your faith turns out to be based on nothing. About how you find your place in a community of which you were an invisible and unappreciated part. About how you find love when you are well over fifty, and how you accept it when you have found it.

Who else but Natascha McElhone to play the lead role in this - the enigmatic lady we all know from Ronin, and who has since starred in countless films that have all either failed or never made it - or perhaps both. That it wasn't her fault is the least this film makes clear.

But more than that. The church has received an abundance of criticism over the past twenty, forty, fifty years, and as far as I'm concerned, almost all of it is justified. Easy to say as a die-hard atheist, of course. But it is also irrefutable that the church, religion, faith - in whatever form - provides a bond in society.

That's probably the best part of the film, how McElhone's Carmen does that, and how she does it better than her brother as a pastor. Just to rub it in, it's not about faith, it's about how we treat each other. That's what that church stands for - 'we' built it together. Just like that mosque and that synagogue, and the stupa of the boat refugees that I walk past every day. Too bad it's pretty much finished now, I would have liked to lend a hand.

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