Winner of the top award at the Berlin Film Festival, director Mark Dornford-May's audacious and passionate adaptation of Georges Bizet's popular 1875 opera CARMEN moves it to a present-day shantytown near Cape Town, South Africa, and a world of speedboats, cellphones and condoms. Pauline Malefane, who gives a smoldering and electrifying performance in the title role, also assisted in translating the libretto into the click language Xhosa. Full of light, life and color, this is a CARMEN that the New York Times said "dazzles in the memory."