Videoth?que Godard II, Prénom Carmen January 2, 2005

Videoth?que Godard II
This final program in the series consists of several videoworks completed by Godard between 1994 and 2003. Among the selections are Plus Oh!, a 1996 music video for French pop singer France Gall; Je vous salue, Sarajevo (1994); and De l'origine du XXi?me si?cle.

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Prénom Carmen
Prénom Carmen, a modern reworking of the Prosper Mérimée narrative (preserving the broad themes of the Bizet opera), revives Godard's youthful "new wave" wit--although middle-aged overtones of despair are palpable. The opera's cigarette girl becomes a terrorist, Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers). Paying a visit to her uncle Jean (Godard), a burned-out film director languishing in an asylum, Carmen argues that she and her lover will use his apartment to make a documentary but, in fact, her intent is to put it to use in a kidnapping plot. Celebrated new-wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard, whose cinéma vérité images for Breathless captured the world's imagination, was reunited with Godard for Prénom Carmen (1984, 95 minutes). Recommended for mature audiences only.

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