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The Visuals Do the Singing in a Ravishing Animated Riff on Bizet’s Opera

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  • Festival 42
  • Director: Sébastian Laudenbach
  • France, Luxembourg 2026
  • 90 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

1840, Seville, a pulsating town of sailors and small-time crooks. Young Salvador, assistant to the gifted knife grinder Antonio, encounters the captivating gypsy girl Carmen. Her rapturous beauty and independent spirit set the town abuzz, but Antonio's mystical ability to glimpse the future in sharpened blades foretells a tragic fate for Carmen at the hands of the soldier José. With unwavering resolve, Salvador musters an eclectic band of misfit street kids, led by the spirited Belén, to challenge the unyielding threads of destiny and protect Carmen from inevitable doom.

French director Sébastien Laudenbach's animated feature Viva Carmen is based on Georges Bizet's frequently adapted 1875 opera Carmen, with a particular focus on the children of the story.

Filmography: Chicken for Linda! (2023), The Girl Without Hands (2016).


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  • Director Sébastian Laudenbach
  • Production Damien Brunner, Sarah Delmas
  • Script Santiago Otheguy, Sébastien Laudenbach, based on the opera 'Carmen' by Georges Bizet, based on the novella by Prosper Mérimée
  • Graphic designer Cyril Pedrosa
  • Editing Catherine Aladenise
  • Music Amine Bouhafa, Isabelle Laudenbach
  • Festivals Cannes, Annecy
  • Voices Camélia Jordana, Milo Machado-Graner, Soumaye Bocoum, Carl Malapa
  • Source Global Constellation

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