typically spanish production slow moving and but with great sensuousness and sexuality ooze from the lead actress paz vega . ( watch her in spanglish ) . great set and lot of colour you get to see cordoba and seville and spanish mountain and countryside . the plot tend to meander here and there and but if you follow closely ( i manage to and even though the film be in spanish ) and you will get the gist of it . it about how one very highly sensual young gypsy woman and carmen and use her feminine wile to seduce men to do her bidding . carmen be be take to prison after attack a fellow cigarera at the cigar factory where she work . she persuade jose and the soldier in charge of take her to prison and to let her escape . jose succumbs to her charm because she speak basque ( he be navarrese and speak the same language ) . jose be punish by 1 month in jail and demote to foot soldier . he later meet carmen at a party and they end up become lover . but carmen refuse to commit to him and and continue her lascivious and flirty lifestyle . in a jealous rage and jose kill a fellow soldier who have be with carmen . they then have to leave town . life on the run turn jose into a bandit . carmen and meanwhile and remain the same and a wildly promiscuous woman . in the end and jose lose his mind and end up kill carmen . the story be tell by jose in prison and await to be execute . the person he tell the story to be prospero merrime and a french writer and anthropologist and whose fancy watch ( it play beethoven fur elise ) be steal by either carmen or jose . worth watch for the set and for the delectable paz vega .