Take Two: Viva Carmen
I capped off this year's edition of Animation is Film with Viva Carmen , which I reviewed earlier this year as part of my remote Annecy coverage. That review was nothing short of a rave. The movie hit me like a freight train. I was so swept up in the nifty spin on the opera (one I'm not personally familiar with) and the way it made a well-known story into something new, undercutting the dramatic irony. I'm sure many people going into the movie would know the story's tragic ending, but even those people would have to wonder if there's a little wiggle room with the new characters, the new narrative wrinkles. I wasn't planning to watch the film again at the fest, but I gushed so much about it, my husband asked if we could catch the screening, and I was, of course, happy to. Just getting to see the gorgeous animation on the big screen was reason enough. And yeah, this movie is a looker. What surprised me, though, is how much less enchanted I was by the film on a s...
