Carmen & Lola
- sombre
Sombre, steady, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
Our read · Carmen & Lola (2018) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded romance · drama · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Carmen & Lola
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a tender, chaste romance between two girls defying gypsy tradition.”
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The reading.
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