Prénom Carmen (1983)

Director:

Jean-Luc Godard

Writers:

Anne-Marie Miéville (scenario)
Anne-Marie Miéville (adaptation)

Release Date:

11 January 1984 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Crime | Romance

Plot:

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...

Plot Keywords:

Male Full Frontal Nudity | Pubic Hair | Female Full Frontal Nudity | Television | Sex

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Maruschka Detmers	...	Carmen X
Jacques Bonnaffé	...	Joseph Bonnaffé
Myriem Roussel	...	Claire
Christophe Odent	...	Le chef
Pierre-Alain Chapuis
Bertrand Liebert	...	Le garde du corps
Alain Bastien-Thiry	...	Le valet du grand hôtel (as Alain Bastien)
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Fred (as Hyppolite Girardot)
Odile Roire
Valérie Dréville	...	La noutrice
Christine Pignet
Jean-Michel Denis
Jacques Villeret	...	L'homme qui mange des yaourts dans les toilettes de la station-service / Man eating jam
Jacques Prat	...	Violon (as Quatuor Prat)
Laurent Dangalec	...	Violon (as Quatuor Prat)

Also Known As:

First Name: Carmen (USA)

Runtime:

USA:85 min | France:85 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:R | Australia:R (2007) | Iceland:14 | Argentina:18 | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Singapore:R(A) | Sweden:15 | UK:18

Company:

Sara Films

Movie Connections:

Version of Carmen (1999/I) (TV)

Soundtrack:

String Quartet n. 14 op. 131

Pretentious crap

OVERRATED "ART FILM" ALERT: The following film is adored by sophisticated and "with it" film fans. The fact that the average person may find the whole thing unfunny and bland is due to their just not being smart enough to understand and appreciate this masterpiece.

Oh did I hate this movie! It's artsy-fartsy crap like this that turns many people off from foreign films, and that's a great shame as there are so many French films better than this. In fact, I challenge you to come up with one worse! The film is rife with weird editing and extended shots of waves crashing. This is meant to be "sophisticated"; I think it looks very amateurish and overdone.

The story itself is pretty meaningless and confusing. It's about some terrorists who like to get naked A LOT (by the way, the female lead could really use a shave) and whose emotions are up and down more than your average roller-coaster. What some say is artistic, I think is boring and banal.

The only element that made me the least bit interested in the film is that the director himself plays, of all things, a "crazy director". Wow--that's some stretch. It's sort of like asking Cookie Monster to play someone who loves to eat! Unless you LIKE pretentious movies that are 100% boring, do NOT watch this film!

PS--if you actually LIKE this sort of mess, then by all means look for Godard's other "masterpiece", ALPHAVILLE. It's also a total piece of crap and a total waste of time.