First name: Carmen (1983)

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from one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, jean-luc godard (weekend, breathless) comes first name: carmen, a comic strip reworking of the famous 1845 novella, carmen. godard's interpretation is interwined with the music of beethoven's captivating string quartets, which brilliantly accentuates the emotion of this remarkable tale of erotic desire and betrayal. set in contemporary france, the beautiful terrorist carmen (maruschka detmers) is involved in a bank robbery in which she seduces joseph (jacques bonnaffe) a young policeman during his attempts to arrest her.