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First Name: Carmen (1983)
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Overview
The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen’s escape with the guard, her uncle’s attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
Length 85 minutes
Actors
Maruschka Detmers | Jacques Bonnaffé | Myriem Roussel | Christophe Odent | Jean-Luc Godard | Valérie Dréville | Hippolyte Girardot | Bertrand Liebert | Pierre-Alain Chapuis | Odile Roire | Christine Pignet