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First Name: Carmen

1983, Movie, NR, 93 mins

First Name: Carmen: Review

Director Jean-Luc Godard has taken a less than reverent approach to the famed opera Carmen. Godard chose to depart substantially from the original Merimee novel and, to the horror of Bizet fans, replaced the composer's score with Beethoven string quartets and a ballad called "Ruby's Arms" by the gruff-voiced Tom Waits. Here Carmen (Maruschka Detmers) is a femme fatale who concocts a daring plan to rob a bank while pretending to shoot a movie. Luckily she has an uncle (Godar... read more leave a comment