About this title: 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 ...
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Description: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffé, Myriem Roussel, Christophe Odent, Jean-Luc Godard. Very good in good packaging. Box not like that pictured; probably ex-rental, although neither the box nor the tape are marked; box has a tear on the flap and is folded on one side. In French with English subtitles. read more
Description: Very good. VG+-looks new but there's light shelf wear on case-We ship out fast daily w/free upgrade to 1st class shipping on this item + FREE tracking-(Gotta have it fast? ) Expediated shipping IS avail. on this item (Personalized Service~Always Bubble Envelope) read more
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