CARMEN – a film by Valerie Buhagiar -SPOILERS
A lighthearted tale about the horrors of big religion, CARMEN takes place in an isolated Maltese village in the 1980s where the police station is across the street from the church and neither place does very much business. A cop napping on a bench nearby must be roused to unlock the church for services. Carmen (Natascha McElhone) attends a mass conducted by her brother, the local priest. She has been her brother’s unpaid housekeeper for many years, ever since her lover Ahmad (Chakid Zidi) was found dead at the bottom of a cliff just before they were preparing to run away together. She was told that he had killed himself.
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