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Mauvais Sang (French pronunciation: [movɛ sɑ̃], Bad Blood), also known as The Night Is Young, is Leos Carax's second film. Released in 1986, the film played at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival [1] before being nominated for three César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc .
- Denis Chateau, Alain Dahan, Philippe Diaz
Nov 26, 1986 · With Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer. As a deadly virus which infects people who have loveless sex sweeps Paris, a lonely pariah attempts to steal a potent antidote, only to fall for the mistress of his partner-in-crime.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Leos Carax
- 1986-11-26
In this light, Mauvais sang reveals itself as a deftly Godardian deconstruction of the fatalistic poetic realist, proto-noir classics of the 1930s, sliced and diced in a way that makes Carax appear less a methodical forensic pathologist and more a wildly fanatical Mack the Knife as he hacks his way through cinematic cadavers of the past in ...
- Leos Carax
Jul 28, 2023 · Steve. 2023-07-28. 0. French neo-noir at its most stylish, Mauvais Sang (confusingly it also goes by the titles The Night Is Young and the more literally translated Bad Blood) was Leos Carax’s second feature, the enfant terrible of French cinema still only a youthful 26 in 1986 when the film was made. The majority of his cast are pretty young ...
- Leos Carax
Mauvais Sang (English Subtitled) Alex, an ex-con and the teenage son of a murdered criminal, is coerced by two former associates of his father into stealing the antidote to a deadly AIDS-like virus. As he falls for the crime boss’ mistress, a rival gang lurks in the shadows, also intent upon securing the precious serum.
Nov 27, 2013 · A film review of Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang, a playful and lyrical film about a teen rebel and his girlfriend who try to steal a cure for an AIDS-like virus in Paris. The reviewer praises the film's use of close-ups, elliptical montage, and color scheme to celebrate cinema and love, and its depiction of the characters' emotions and romance.
Apr 27, 2001 · The final KO of a brilliant cinematic one-two punch, Leos Carax’s follow-up to his gobsmacking feature debut, Boy Meets Girl (1984), proved this enfant terrible was no one-hit wonder. Boy still meets girl, in the form of feral Denis Levant and gorgeous Juliette Binoche, but this sophomore outing’s real romantic coupling is an artist ...
