as Carmen toys with a young hotel attendant, Fred directs Carmen to tell Joseph it's over, and Joseph forces Carmen into an abject sexual encounter in the shower where he ejaculates on her. The day of the kidnapping arrives, and the incident is to take place in the restaurant in the hotel where the gang has been staying. Uncle Jeannot is present to direct the film (apparently shot on video), along with the string quartet (performing in public at last) and eventually the police (who have followed Joseph). As with the bank robbery, mayhem ensues. Joseph is determined to encounter Carmen alone; a gun goes off between them, and Carmen falls to the floor. Leaving her for dead, the police drag Joseph away. In a stupor, Carmen asks the young hotel attendant what it is called when the innocents are on one side and the guilty on the other, when everything has been lost but you are still breathing and the sun is still rising. "Daybreak," he responds. Cast Maruschka Detmers as Carmen X Jacques Bonnaffé as Joseph Bonnaffé Myriem Roussel as Claire Hippolyte Girardot as Fred Prénom Carmen was intended to star Isabelle Adjani in the title role. Adjani, who had achieved international fame in François Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H. (1975), left the set after a week of filming, finding Godard’s alienating approach to actors traumatic. It was Alain Sarde who Maruschka Detmers, brought a 20-year-old Dutch girl, to the attention of Jean-Luc Godard, just out of an acting class and without any film experience behind her. Godard accepts, persuaded both by the perfectly fitting physical type to give life to a sensual and melancholy Carmen, and by the ease with which she faces, during an audition, a nude scene in the presence of the male protagonist. References External links 1983 films French avant-garde and experimental films Swiss avant-garde and experimental films Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard Golden Lion winners Films produced by Alain Sarde Films based on Carmen Georges Bizet 1980s avant-garde and experimental films 1980s French-language films French-language Swiss films 1980s French films