Karmen Geï (Karmen Gei) Reviews

Wobbly Senegalese updating of "Carmen" which is best for the stunning star turn by Djeinaba Diop Gai

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Interesting and thoroughly unfaithful version of Carmen

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Karmen moves like rhythm itself, her lips chanting to the beat, her long, braided hair doing little to wipe away the jeweled beads of sweat.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

The film becomes an overwhelming pleasure, and you find yourself rooting for Gai's character to avoid the fate that has befallen every other Carmen before her.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

[Gai] comes closer to any actress I can remember to personifying independence in its purest and, yes, most intimidating form.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Ultimately betrayed by a script, whose initially ambiguous charm gives way to disorder and confusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Beautifully reclaiming the story of Carmen and recreating it an in an African idiom.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's sexy, muscular and fast in a way that transcends logic to become something wondrous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

A violent initiation rite for the audience, as much as it is for Angelique, the [opening] dance guarantees Karmen's enthronement among the cinema's memorable women.

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A vibrant, colorful, semimusical rendition.

The production design, score and choreography are simply intoxicating.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

A worthy addition to the cinematic canon, which, at last count, numbered 52 different versions.

| Original Score: 2/4

Enormously likable, partly because it is aware of its own grasp of the absurd.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Lead actress Gaï, she of the impossibly long limbs and sweetly conspiratorial smile, is a towering siren.

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