Carmen Jones
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Movie Reviews of Carmen Jones
Movie Review: Dandridge fan
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie based on the Carmen opera. I had seen this on regular tv as a kid, and had to own it.Movie Review: Fabulous Bizet movie in english!
Summary: 5 Stars
Wonderful way to hear Bizet's music and see the USA in the 40's. And the actors are surperb!Movie Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
Classic Dorothy Dandridge, if you like her, a must see along with Porgy & Bess.Movie Review: OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 20
Summary: 4 Stars
**** 1954. Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Based on Georges Bizet's Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Georges Pretre, Paris Opera Orchestra and Prosper Mérimée's Carmen and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics). Bronze Bear in Berlin and Golden Globe in the Best Film Musical/Comedy category. Joe the soldier is seduced by the free spirited Carmen. He chooses soon to desert and follows Carmen Jones to Chicago where she loses interest in him. After Diane Tremayne Jessup in Angel Face in 1952 and Patty O'Neill in The Moon Is Blue [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ] in 1953, this is the third portrait of a row of a strong-willed woman by Otto Preminger. Thanks to the high quality of the material, libretto and music, CARMEN JONES passes successfully the test of time contrary to most of the musicals of the 50's. Dorothy Dandridge literally ignites the screen. Highly recommended.
Just a few trailers as bonus features but a near perfect copy should lead you to add this DVD to your library.
Movie Review: A powerful display of Dandrige's appeal...
Summary: 4 Stars
Dorothy Dandrige's roles went beyond that of sex symbol to being a parody of female sexuality... Carmen Jones is a powerful display of her appeal...
Based on Bizet's operatic masterpiece, Otto Preminger's film is the story of a GI about to go to flying school (Harry Belafonte), a noble young man who loves the cigarette-maker Carmen very dearly...
Filled with passionate songs and a first-rate supporting cast, the movie is filled with exciting musical numbers that are necessary to the film... But as impeccable and skillful the supporting cast is, this is Dandrige's magnetic star of enduring international appeal... Her Carmen is a flame of fire, isolating in a few moments the essence of her attraction... Her enigma sustained throughout a career notable for its startling changes of tempo and direction...Her shapely figure, blazing eyes, with the air of the unexpected add up a touch of melancholy to even the most routine sequences... Her performance was a parable of love and its power to destroy if misused...