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First Name: Carmen (1983)
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First Name: Carmen (1983)
Original name: Prénom Carmen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 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.
Style: experimental, art house, erotic, psychedelic, psychological, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic ...
Plot: bank, kidnapping, terrorism, sex, masturbation, female pubic hair, erotica, gang, eroticism, money, hostage, minimalism, robbery, resistance, exodus, economist, erotic scene, filmmaking, terrorist, young woman, female nudity, sex scene, male nudity, shooting, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, paris france
Keyword: avant-garde, disgust, french, new wave

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Devil in the Flesh (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 114 min.
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
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The Wounded Man (1983)
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Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
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Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)
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