Review of Carmen Jones (1954) by Marjorie Baumgarten for Austin Chronicle — 15 Jan 1973
Preminger strips the musical of all excess and frills. He creates an austere, depoeticized, anti-lyrical world in which nothing obstructs his camera's detached recording of the action. The great themes of Preminger's oeuvre are obsession and the conflict between freedom and repression, themes which are central to Carmen Jones.
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This review of Carmen Jones (1954) was written by Marjorie Baumgarten and published by Austin Chronicle on 15 Jan 1973.
Carmen Jones has generally received positive reviews.
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