Christophe Odent

Godard stars as an eccentric filmmaker in this fragmentary love poem from his 1980s period. Loosely based on Bizet’s opera, First Name: Carmen reinvents cinema into elliptical broken rhythms and passages of poetry to renew one of the oldest of tales: that of two lovers on the run.

Jeremy is a bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, but he is a sensitive fellow and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hit men, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hit man Max, who knows too much to be left alive.