First Name: Carmen

First Name: Carmen
Directed by	Jean-Luc Godard
Produced by	Alain Sarde
Written by	Anne-Marie Miéville,
Starring	Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé
Distributed by	Parafrance Films
Release date(s)	September 1983 (premiere at VFF) 11 January 1984 3 August 1984 (NYC)
Running time	85 min.
Language	French

First Name: Carmen (French: Prénom Carmen) is a 1983 film by Jean-Luc Godard. It is very loosely based on Bizet's opera Carmen.

The protagonist is Carmen X (Maruschka Detmers), a female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director (played by Jean-Luc Godard himself) 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.

The film won the Golden Lion at the 1983 Venice Film Festival. The film had 395,462 Admissions in France.

Cast

• Maruschka Detmers : Carmen X
• Jacques Bonnaffé : Joseph Bonnaffé
• Myriem Roussel : Claire
• Christophe Odent : The Boss
• Bertrand Liebert : Carmen's Bodyguard
• Alain Bastien-Thiry : Hotel Worker
• Hippolyte Girardot : Fred
• Jean-Luc Godard : Uncle Jeannot
• Pierre-Alain Chapuis
• Odile Roire
• Valérie Dréville
• Christine Pignet
• Jean-Michel Denis
• Jacques Villeret : Cameo appearance
• Jean-Pierre Mocky : Cameo appearance

External links

• First Name: Carmen at the Internet Movie Database