Jean-Luc Godard - Prénom Carmen (1983)

'Prénom Carmen', a comic strip reworking of Prosper Mérimée's famous 1845 novella 'Carmen'. Godard's interpretation is intertwined with the music of Beethoven's captivating string quartets, which brilliantly accentuates the emotion of this remarkable tale of erotic desire and betrayal. Set in contemporary France, the beautiful terrorist Carmen (Maruschka Detmers) is involved in a bank robbery in which she seduces Joseph (Jacques Bonnaffe) a young policeman during his attempts to arrest her. (-DVD cover)



Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/plotsummary)



Here are the bare bones of the story: Carmen wants to make a film with her friends, but has no money. The gang tries to stage an armed bank robbery, but runs into fierce opposition from Joseph, a guard. Carmen and Joseph flee together to the coast, where they stay in her Uncle Jean's apartment. Jean (Godard himself) is making a film set in a luxury hotel, but this is just a pretext for a kidnapping attempt on a businessman. From here on, the plot follows the Bizet opera beloved of so many of us. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



It's fun to watch Godard working out styles and themes again, while acting outrageously in the hospital scene. Maruschka Detmers looks gorgeous, and Jacques Bonnaffe is suitably ardent and foolish. The bank robbery is worthy of Woody Allen in his best days. . (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



'First Name: Carmen' is an enthralling hybrid for director/actor Jean-Luc Godard and screenwriter (and frequent collaborator) Anne-Marie Mieville. After almost a decade of weird, philosophical experimentation, they took on the opera of Carmen and deconstructed it with some amusing self-awareness ("Uncle" Jean-Luc Godard at the start of the film is in a hospital of sorts, over-staying his welcome), while going back to Godard's golden days of movies with lovers on the run. . (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



This time the lovers meet by accident and chance- Carmen X (the alluring and dangerous Maruschka Detmers in a controlled, if downtrodden debut acting role) asks of her uncle Jean if she can use his beach-side house to make a film with some friends. He agrees, though not knowing she's apart of a terrorist gang that robs a bank. . (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



During the robbery she has a shoot-out, and kiss, with Joseph (Jacques Bonnaffe, whose performance shifts from bizarre to intense and then believable) the security guard. They hide out for a little while, becoming more involved, while Carmen knows at the same time his uncle prepares to make his comeback film after being washed up for so long, her terrorist friends are planning another scheme. . (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



Nevertheless the compositions are no less than on par with what to be expected from Godard (via the great Raoul Coutard and Jean-Bernard Menoud), and the emotionally charged musical selections from Beethoven and Bizet are pulled off as a successful experiment as the footage of the string musicians are inserted several times. Overall, 'Carmen', however little or much it follows it's source, is a fine piece of art-type of cinema, where romanticism and cynical humor plays as much of a role as the story. . (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/usercomments)



Music by :Ludwig van Beethoven (from "String Quartet" Nos.9, 10, 14, 15, 16") , Tom Waits (song "Ruby's Arms") , Georges Bizet (song Habanera "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" from opera "Carmen"). (http://imdb.com/title/tt0086153/fullcredits)



'Prénom Carmen' was the winner of 1983 Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion award, and a Special Prize went to Raoul Coutard (cinematographer) and François Musy (sound).







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