First Name: Carmen (1983)

Original title

Prénom Carmen

Directed by

Jean-Luc Godard

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Switzerland

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 113 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman recruits a man for a bank robbery. Their relationship unfolds alongside scenes of a string quartet rehearsing.

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What happens

First Name: Carmen (French: Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen, the film was written by Anne-Marie Miéville and produced by Alain Sarde, and stars Maruschka Detmers and Jacques Bonnaffé. The film won the Golden Lion at the 40th Venice International Film Festival and had 395,462 admissions in France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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