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First Name: Carmen (1983)

★ 6.3R85 minDirector: Jean-Luc Godard

1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard

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.

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What is First Name: Carmen about?
First Name: Carmen (1983) — Carmen is a member of a terrorist gang who falls in love with a young police officer guarding a bank that she and her cohorts try to rob. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quart
Is First Name: Carmen based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is First Name: Carmen scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.