Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Studio: Sara Films, JLG Films, Films A2
Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Pierre-Alain Chapuis, Bertrand Liebert, Alain Bastien-Thiry, Hippolyte Girardot, Odile Roire, Valerie Dreville, Christine Pignet, Jean-Michel Denis, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Prat, Laurent Dangalec.
Description:
—The protagonist is Carmen X, a 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
—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. She leads him on while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Jean-Luc Godard intercuts the film with shots of a string quartet practicing Beethoven, and his main protagonist, Carmen, is played by Maruschka Detmers creating a stunning effect in many scenes of extended nudity
