Leos Carax

  • Leos Carax – Pola X [+Commentary] (1999)

    1991-2000ArthouseDramaFranceLeos Carax

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    Plot:

    Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who’s about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late one night in the woods: that she is Isabelle, his sister, abandoned by their father. Pierre breaks off with Lucie and his doting mother, heading for Paris with Isabelle, intent on knowing the dark side of human nature. He begins a novel, sending chapters under a pseudonym to his publisher; his relationship with Isabelle moves beyond the fraternal; and, in winter, the frail Lucie comes to live with them. Family jealousies mount, and Pierre may have discovered despair instead of the truth.Read More »

  • Leos Carax – Gradiva (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseBelgiumDramaLeos CaraxShort Film

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    Two minutes in which Carax attempts to reach the essence of Art : sculpture, Cinema, actress, music, gallery, myth…
    a delicious mixture;
    Godard influence is still here and will always be with Carax;
    The short seems like the continuity of the movie Holy Motors, with always the small frontier between reality and Art.Read More »

  • Leos Carax – Les amants du Pont-Neuf AKA The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)

    1991-2000ArthouseFranceLeos CaraxRomance

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    “Wiki wrote:
    Set around the Pont Neuf, Paris’s oldest bridge, while it was closed for repairs, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf depicts a love story between two young vagrants. Alex, a street performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michèle, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and a disease which is slowly destroying her sight. The film portrays their harsh existence living on the bridge with Hans, an older vagrant. As her vision deteriorates Michèle becomes increasingly dependent on Alex. When a possible treatment becomes available, Michèle’s family use street posters and radio appeals to trace her. Fearing that she will leave him if she receives the treatment, Alex tries to keep Michèle from becoming aware of her family’s attempts to find her. The streets, skies and waterways of Paris are used as a backdrop for the story in a series of set-pieces set during the French Bicentennial celebrations in 1989.Read More »

  • Joon-ho Bong, Leos Carax & Michel Gondry – Tokyo! (2008)

    Drama2001-2010FranceJoon-ho BongLeos CaraxMichel Gondry

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    This triptych of tales set in the titular city of Tokyo suggests an Eastern version of NEW YORK STORIES, but there is a significant difference: in this case, none of the three writer-directors (two French and one Korean) are natives; consequently, their short films emerge less as love letters to the city than as skewed points of view from outsiders looking in on what what they consider to be a strange, exotic land, bordering on a freak show. With their surreal touches, fanciful symbolism, and at least one outright refernce to Japanese kaiju cinema, TOKYO! emerges as a boderline genre effort – not quite a fantasy film but definitely a curious piece of cinefantatique. Unfortunately, the weirdness is not always entertaining – in some cases it is merely boring – but there is enough going on to make this interesting for fans of art house cinema.Read More »

  • Leos Carax – Hymn to Merde (2009)

    2001-2010FranceLeos CaraxShort Film

    Quote:

    A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film “Merde” (part of the feature film “Tokyo!’), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon.Read More »

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