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First Name: Carmen (1983)

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard · Cinematography by Raoul Coutard, Jean-Bernard Menoud

R85 min53 frames

CrimeDramaComedyRomance

The Revolutionary New Fable of Erotic Destiny from the Director of BREATHLESS and ALPHAVILLE

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First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A lavish room contains gilded columns and old television equipment stacked on surfaces. A woman…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: closeup — A woman stands in a sparsely lit room near a window with bright daylight. She gazes off-camera…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: closeup — A close-up of a young woman's face against a muted olive-green wall. She gazes downward while…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: establishing — A vast sandy beach borders a calm sea under a pale overcast sky. Water pools across the flat…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: establishing — A calm expanse of sea under a hazy golden hour sky. Two small fishing vessels sit in the…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A dimly lit room with a large window frame letting in bright daylight. A young man and a woman stand…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A crowded professional setting with journalists and technical equipment visible in the background. A…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A dark bedroom with a person in the foreground seen in profile silhouette. The subject reaches…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: fullbody — A narrow residential hallway with white walls and a door leading to a brighter room. A man faces a…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A person stands in a dimly lit doorway with classic molding and white panels. A man in a white dress…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A small, cluttered apartment area features white walls and a window with daylight. A woman sits on a…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: wide — A man sits on the hood of a blue hatchback beside a stone seawall. An overcast day illuminates the wet…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: closeup — A silhouette of a human hand is superimposed over a blue television static background. The fingers…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: wide — A multi-lane asphalt road at night viewed from an elevated perspective. Several cars are moving along…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: medium — A man plays a cello inside a room with plain walls. He focuses on the strings while holding the bow…First Name: Carmen (1983) movie still: closeup — A close-up of a vintage typewriter platen holding a blue sheet of paper. The paper contains…
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What is First Name: Carmen about?

A woman involved with a terrorist group becomes dangerously close to the police officer guarding the bank they plan to rob.

Where can you watch First Name: Carmen?

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What does the cinematography of First Name: Carmen look like?

Sampled across 53 frames, the coverage of First Name: Carmen leans on medium shots (47% of the sample) and close-ups (23%). Cinematographer Raoul Coutard keeps 57% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 60% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 62% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of First Name: Carmen?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of First Name: Carmen (1983) are #33312c, #0d0c0b, #513a2f, #d6d4cb, #53544e, #b0a891 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

  • #33312c
  • #0d0c0b
  • #513a2f
  • #d6d4cb
  • #53544e
  • #b0a891

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