when i saw this in the cinema and i remember wince at the bad act about a minute or two into the first scene and then immediately tell myself no and this have to get well . it do not . the performance be pretty uniformly teak n pine and no and there be no sexual chemistry in this film whatsoever and just the awkward posturing of a reasonably comely and discreetly talentless actress who seem bear to grace the cover of interviú and not much else besides . if the scriptwriter think that make mérimée a character be a stunningly original creative ploy he perhaps ought to get out more . and aranda and if he would give the matter a bit more thought and would have realise that the story of carmen be just cry out for a thoughtful and iconoclastic and parodic deconstruction and not this leave your brain at the turnstile affair of ersatz passion and comic book dialogue . this be contemporary spanish cinema at it bad .