First Name: Carmen

First Name: Carmen

The Revolutionary New Fable of Erotic Destiny from the Director of BREATHLESS and ALPHAVILLE

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Release Date

12/1/1983

Runtime

85 mins

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A wildly inventive collage that treats a bank robbery, a love story, and a film-within-a-film with equal doses of eroticism and anarchic humor. Watching it feels like being let in on an elaborate artistic prank that keeps reinventing itself.

Mood

PlayfulAbsurdRomanticTense

Themes

LoveArt and creationCrimeObsession

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

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Look

Stylized genreHigh-contrast

Structure

Nonlinear

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Sexual contentGraphic violence

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