First Name: Carmen
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| First Name: Carmen | |
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| Directed by | Jean-Luc Godard |
| Produced by | Alain Sarde |
| Written by | Anne-Marie Miéville, |
| Starring | Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé |
| Distributed by | Parafrance Films |
| Release date(s) |  September 1983 (premiere at VFF) 11 January 1984 3 August 1984 (NYC) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Language | French |
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First Name: Carmen (French: Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.
The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) 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.
The film won the Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival.
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| Preceded by The State of Things |
Golden Lion winner 1983 |
Succeeded by The Year of the Quiet Sun |
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