

First Name: Carmen
Visit website6.2/10 • 98
1983-12-01 • 1h 25m
The Revolutionary New Fable of Erotic Destiny from the Director of BREATHLESS and ALPHAVILLE
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.
- Directors
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Editors
- Suzanne Lang-Willar

First Name: Carmen
Visit website1983-12-01 • 1h 25m
6.2/10 • 98
The Revolutionary New Fable of Erotic Destiny from the Director of BREATHLESS and ALPHAVILLE
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.
- Directors
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Editors
- Suzanne Lang-Willar
Top Billed Cast
View CreditsMaruschka Detmers
Carmen X
Jacques Bonnaffé
Joseph Bonnaffé
Myriem Roussel
Claire
Christophe Odent
Gang Leader
Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Bertrand Liebert
Carmen's Bodyguard
Alain Bastien-Thiry
Hotel Valet
Hippolyte Girardot
Fred
Odile Roire
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- Original Language
- French
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- Keywords
- robberybased on novel or bookkidnappinghostagebankeroticismguardlovemoneygangterrorism