France,
1983, 85 min
Directed by:
Jean-Luc GodardScreenplay:
Anne-Marie MiévilleCast:
Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Hippolyte Girardot, Jacques Villeret, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Mocky (more)Plots(1)
Godard's rendering of the Spanish female myth of Carmen transforms her into a modern, bank-robbing, hostage-taking, passionate and blackmailing manipulator. This story is an amalgam of Prosper Mérimé's novel, Jean Girourdoux's Electra and Otto Preminger'a film Carmen Jones. All that on the backdrop of Beethoven's music. (Summer Film School)
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