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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.

Rated R | Length 85 minutes

Actors

Maruschka Detmers | Jacques Bonnaffé | Myriem Roussel | Christophe Odent | Pierre-Alain Chapuis | Bertrand Liebert | Alain Bastien-Thiry | Hippolyte Girardot | Odile Roire | Valérie Dréville | Christine Pignet | Jean-Michel Denis | Jacques Villeret | Jacques Prat | Laurent Dangalec | Bruno Pasquier | Michel Strauss | Eloïse Beaune | Sacha Briquet | Jean-Luc Godard | Jean-Pierre Mocky