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The year 1983 belonged to Carmen: Carlos Saura was making the flamenco film <\/span>Carmen<\/span><\/i>, and Francesco Rosi was preparing his opera film adaptation, which was completed the following year. Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s version is \u2013 of course \u2013 something entirely different. Georges Bizet\u2019s music is absent (apart from a couple of seconds of whistled melody), replaced instead by a string quartet rehearsing Beethoven. Godard turns himself into a caricature; he plays a film director who ends up in a mental institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on a screenplay by Godard\u2019s wife Anne-Marie Mi\u00e9ville, the work disguises a bank robbery as the making of a film \u2014 or a film as a bank robbery. In this way, a constantly reversing mirror structure is created.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if the viewer is not entirely \u201cin tune\u201d with the film that won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, its treasure chest always contains something unforgettable: Raoul Coutard\u2019s cinematography is dazzling, and the editing feels divine. Attention is drawn to the photogenic presence of Maruschka Detmers and Myriem Roussel. The male actors\u2019 charisma has not received the same degree of attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

Carmen is full of literary quotations, and recognizing them becomes a kind of game designed to measure the viewer\u2019s \u201clevel.\u201d The most beautiful and hopeful of these quotations come from Jean Giraudoux and Luis Bu\u00f1uel \u2014 and Godard reserves this one for the ending of his work.<\/span><\/p>\n

Veli-Matti Huhta<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The year 1983 belonged to Carmen: Carlos Saura was making the flamenco film Carmen, and Francesco Rosi was preparing his opera film adaptation, which was completed the following year. Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s version is \u2013 of course \u2013 something entirely different. 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