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First Name: Carmen is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Luc Godard released in USA on 20 december 1983 with Maruschka Detmers
First Name: Carmen (1983)
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Add to a movie listFirst Name: Carmen (French: Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen. The film won the Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival and had 395,462 Admissions in France.
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Carmen, in voice over paired with shots of the city and the sea, introduces herself as "the girl who should not be called Carmen." Somewhere a string quartet is rehearsing the late string quartets of Beethoven. The eccentric Jeannot (Godard himself) is living in a sanitarium where the doctor threatens to throw him out if he doesn't start to show signs of real illness. Carmen comes to visit him, and it is revealed he is a washed up filmmaker and her lecherous uncle. After getting her Uncle Jeannot to loan her his seaside apartment, Carmen and some others attempt to rob a bank. During the mayhem of the robbery, Carmen comes face to face with Joseph, a comically inept bank guard, and the two immediately fall in love. The string quartet continues to rehearse, inflecting the scenes of the robbery, and vice versa. The narrative link is that one of the members of the quartet is Claire, who is established earlier in the film as a potential love interest for Joseph.Actors
Maruschka Detmers
(Carmen X)
Jacques Bonnaffé
(Joseph Bonnaffé)
Myriem Roussel
(Claire)
Christophe Odent
(Chef)
Jean-Luc Godard
(Uncle Jeannot)
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