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Car Man, The (Wide Screen) (Various Artists)
Car Man, The (Wide Screen) (Various Artists)
Director: Matthew Bourne
Summary: A modern adaptation of Bizet's work Carmen. Life in a small community is changed with the arrival of a handsome stranger...
Director and choreographer Matthew Bourne's dramatic song-and-dance production is loosely based on Bizet's CARMEN. Sex, murder, and greed collide in this sultry story.
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This latest dance version of Carmencomes courtesy of choreographer Matthew Bourne, who has devised his own scenario of Bizet's opera set in a garage-diner in the American mid-West, circa 1960. The Car Mantoured the UK in 2000 finishing with a four-month run to packed houses at the Old Vic. This film treatment details all the excitement of the occasion. The cinematography assists in capturing the atmosphere of Bourne's treatment--film noirwith allusions to Hitchcock--through employment of chiaroscuro. The use of the split-screen technique also enhances the cinematic feel. The music sounds seductive and full-bodied, befitting the new story line (Bourne calls it an “auto-erotic thriller”) in which an enigmatic stranger, Luca, walks into town seducing both Lana (Carmen) and Angelo (Don Jose). A swarthy individual, Luca looks an unlikely dancer until his first solo galvanises the company.
The single stage set adapts into eight different permutations, taking us from diner through nightclub and prison and then out on the road in a cinematic finale where the Chevrolet cars of the period are destroyed in a pile up. The period look is further enhanced with the girls in tight-waisted colourful frocks and the men in Brando-esque T-shirts and jeans. The dance ensembles are an extraordinarily versatile group: classical, jazz, modern and flamenco seem natural expressions of their body movements. Will Kemp deserves a special mention for his sensitivite portrayal of Angelo.
On the DVD:the soundtrack comes in a choice of stereo or 5.1. surround sound where the subtle employment of percussion instruments in the orchestration makes a telling effect. A picture gallery of 25 stills from the production and a 14-minute interview with Bourne expressing his initial doubt about doing another version of Carmenare further assets. He needn't have had a qualm. This Car Manis destined to give much pleasure. --Adrian Edwards
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 Wide Screen |
| Main Language: | English |
| Region: | Region 2 |
| Special Features: | Fourteen Minute Interview With Director And Choreographer Matthew Bourne |
| Subtitles: | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Release Date: | December 24, 2001 |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Certification: | |
| Catalogue Number: | 0927 42129 2 |
| Keywords: | Music, Car, Man, Ballet, Bourne, Dance, Wide, Screen, Works, Stage, Matthew, Classical, Performing, Arts |
| Genre: | Music/Performing Arts |
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