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9:30 pm
Regal South Beach
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The drums of passion beat wildly in Karmen Gei, the first ever bi-sexualed version of the infamous operatic Carmen, liberator and destroyer.
In a tour-de-force explosion of color and rhythm, the legend is reincarnated as bold, gorgeous Karmen, played by statuesque Senegalese native Djeinaba Diop Gai. Incarcerated in a woman's prison off the Senegalese coast, Karmen is pure uninhibited libido, and the chains of society cannot contain her.
In an opening dance number unparalleled in the history of Carmen adaptations, Karmen twists and shakes her powerful, muscular body in a jaw-dropping display of seduction meant to capture the attention of the female prison warden, Angelique. Later, after a night of feverish passion, Angelique grants Karmen her freedom, but is forever changed by her night of pleasure with Karmen: Angelique is doomed to relieve this high point of passion over and over, but only in memory. Karmen Gei carries with it the blazing heat of revolution -- like all interpretations of Carmen, it is about a soaring, liberated vision of eros doomed by the reactionary swing of social and human constraints, but Karmen Gei breaks through even the constraints of sexual orientation.
Dressed in colorful Senegalese costumes, swaying to an astounding indigenous jazz score, this semi-musical reverberates with the undeniably exotic -- and erotic - flavor of Africa in a way rarely seen on the screen. In French and Wolof with English subtitles.
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