CARMEN QA, TIFF 2022

The team behind CARMEN in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Melissa Barrera and Paul Mescal are dazzling in Benjamin Millepieds modernday retelling of one of historys most famous love stories and operas. The 47th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8 to 18, 2022. For more, visit Transported across time and space from its original staging in Seville, Spain circa 1820, firsttime filmmaker Benjamin Millepieds Carmen a reimagined tour de force of one of historys most famous operas is a bold and adventurous modernday love story set in the Sonoran Desert spanning the MexicoUnited States border. To escape a murderous cartel, the captivating young Carmen (Melissa Barrera) is northbound, her route traversing an area patrolled by the US government and fanatical Americans who hunt people for sport. Mixed into the horde is local veteran Aidan (Paul Mescal, also at the Festival in Aftersun), dr