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1 hr 57 min. TV-MA. Drama · Fantasy. Watch Leos Carax's movies and TV shows for free. Stream Tokyo!, Holy Motors now on Tubi.
Leos Carax. Director: Holy Motors. Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph.
- January 1, 1
- 1.68 m
- Suresnes, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
- 6 Boy Meets Girl
- 5 Pola X
- 4 Mauvais Sang
- 3 Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf
- 2 Annette
- 1 Holy Motors
Following in the footsteps of his predecessors within the French New Wave, Carax began his career at 23 with the Godard-esque monochrome drama Boy Meets Girl. A nocturnal odyssey of lost souls, this 1984 film tells a bittersweet story about a depressed young filmmaker Alex (Denis Lavant) and a suicidal young woman Mireille (Mireille Perrier) who fi...
After the poetic charm of the Alex trilogy, Carax presented a more cynical and controversial film, 1999’s drama Pola X. Pola X is associated with New French Extremity cinema, a movement with transgressive films that shocked the public and critics. Loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, Carax’s fourth film carries dr...
1986’s Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood), playfully toying with film-noir tropes, follows a troubled young manAlex (Denis Lavant) who is tasked to steal a virus culture that works against a mysterious sexually transmitted disease, STBO, which kills people who have sex without love. Over the course of the film, Alex fall for Anna (Juliette Binoche), the love...
Carax takes the theme of desperate romanticism to the next conceivable level with the last film of the Alex trilogy, 1991’s Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (The Lovers on the Bridge). It is an epic love story between two vagrants, a hard-drinking Alex (Denis Lavant) and a painter with failing eyesight Michele (Juliette Binoche), set on Paris’ oldest bridge...
"Why don’t people in musicals fuck?" IndieWire quoted Carax. "It’s not a rule, but it seems weird. Probably because it’s an old genre." With his first English-language film, bizarre rock opera Annette, the French auteur re-imagined and deconstructed the musical genre. Related: Annette, Explained: Analyzing the Bizarre Adam Driver Musical Premiered ...
Mind-boggling, weird, and captivating, the 2012 fantasy drama Holy Motors is the most critically praised film in Carax’s filmography. The drama with cinephile allusions to Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, and other great movies is both a film about film and a tribute to cinema. Holy Motors stars the director'...
Jan 27, 2024 · From intense musicals like Annette to mind-bending and unique films like Holy Motors and Mauvais Sang, no one makes movies quite like Leos Carax.
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Aug 20, 2021 · Annette: Directed by Leos Carax. With Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell. A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.
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- Drama, Music, Musical
- Leos Carax
- 2021-08-20
Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (French: [leɔs kaʁaks]), is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love.
1. The Lovers on the Bridge. 19912h 5mR. 7.6 (16K) Rate. Alex, who's homeless and addicted to alcohol, and Michèle, who's losing her sight, form a relationship while sleeping rough on Paris's Pont-Neuf bridge. Director Leos Carax Stars Juliette Binoche Denis Lavant Klaus-Michael Grüber. 2. Holy Motors. 20121h 55mNot Rated. 7.0 (49K) Rate.
