Paul Mescal isn’t the only one looking lost in feverish update of Carmen
Paul Mescal, Melissa Barrera and Rossy De PalmaLike an opera in which the performers are pumped full of steroids, the production designer tripping on acid, and every member of the orchestra playing as if there were a loaded weapon pointed in their direction, Benjamin Millepied’s extremely loose update of Georges Bizet’sis an exercise in higher-than-high ambition whose only outcome can be of the crash and burn variety.’s original elements here.
Yet for every dance sequence that enchants, such as a carnival-set number that is drenched in neon lights or a late-film fight-club scene in which Tracy “The D.O.C.” Curry raps over a bare-chest and -knuckle brawl, there are two more that sag when they should swirl. Surprisingly, Millepied and cinematographer Jorg Widmer too often box their subjects out of frame, so that we only see partial shots of their bodies in motion when the real treats rest in viewing the whole head-to-toe picture.
The performers mostly do their best to keep what slim characters they have been afforded from falling completely off the screen. Barrera, best-known for the film adaptation offilms, has a smouldering presence that lingers. De Palma is as captivating as ever, an electric jolt that has served the Spanish actress well in her many collaborations with Pedro Almodóvar.
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