Search - First Name: Carmen on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1983 DVD Release: 02/23/1999 Format: DVD - Letterbox for TV Audio Tracks: French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 25 mins Studio: Fox Lorber Members Wishing: 14 Genres: Avant-garde / Experimental, Psychological Drama

First Name: Carmen tells the parallel stories of a quartet rehearsing Beethoven and a group of young people robbing a bank, supposedly to get the funds to make a film. Director Jean-Luc Godard attempts to make a film that resembles a string quartet, each of whose parts serves an abstract whole. The film is a meditation on the difficulties of youth in the 1980s, the relations between cinema and capital, and how to film the human body. Godard fills the film with carefully composed shots of bodies playing music, making love, and acting violently. His attention to bodies in First Name: Carmen makes the film's images very close to sculptures, particularly those of Rodin. The film's engagement with painting and sculpture continues Godard's ongoing investigation of the relationships between cinema and other arts ~ Louis Schwartz, All Movie Guide

Maruschka Detmers - Carmen X
Jacques Bonnaffé - Joseph Bonnaffe
Myriem Roussel - Claire
Christophe Odent - The Boss
Jean-Luc Godard - Uncle Jean

Jean-Luc Godard's crime drama First Name: Carmen, about a criminal and a cop in love, comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of the film. The soundtrack is rendered in the original French. English subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include production notes. This is a slight disc rom WinSar that will be of interest primarily to those with an appreciation for the French master Godard. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide