Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks
Synopsis:
In Paris a jilted young man roams the nocturnal streets and crosses paths with another couple at a crossroads in their relationship. The girl's suicidal tendencies and our hero's uncompromising view of life may well be a match made in heaven.
Review:
A year after Rumble Fish, this film shares that one's predilection for polished monochrome surfaces, a melancholy undertow and surreal asides. Viewing it in hindsight, one recalls a golden age of art-for-art's-sake cinema, and Carax here reveals himself as the true inheritor of Jean-Luc Godard and others' view of the medium as a vehicle for navel-gazing and showing off. There is a mischievous sense of fun about it that saves it, that and the extraordinary physiognomies of its leads, the one by turns malevolent zombie and impassive feline, the other drop dead gorgeous - literally, as it turns out.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks
Synopsis:
In Paris a jilted young man roams the nocturnal streets and crosses paths with another couple at a crossroads in their relationship. The girl's suicidal tendencies and our hero's uncompromising view of life may well be a match made in heaven.
Review:
A year after Rumble Fish, this film shares that one's predilection for polished monochrome surfaces, a melancholy undertow and surreal asides. Viewing it in hindsight, one recalls a golden age of art-for-art's-sake cinema, and Carax here reveals himself as the true inheritor of Jean-Luc Godard and others' view of the medium as a vehicle for navel-gazing and showing off. There is a mischievous sense of fun about it that saves it, that and the extraordinary physiognomies of its leads, the one by turns malevolent zombie and impassive feline, the other drop dead gorgeous - literally, as it turns out.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 100m
Director: Leos Carax
Cast: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks
Synopsis:
In Paris a jilted young man roams the nocturnal streets and crosses paths with another couple at a crossroads in their relationship. The girl's suicidal tendencies and our hero's uncompromising view of life may well be a match made in heaven.
Review:
A year after Rumble Fish, this film shares that one's predilection for polished monochrome surfaces, a melancholy undertow and surreal asides. Viewing it in hindsight, one recalls a golden age of art-for-art's-sake cinema, and Carax here reveals himself as the true inheritor of Jean-Luc Godard and others' view of the medium as a vehicle for navel-gazing and showing off. There is a mischievous sense of fun about it that saves it, that and the extraordinary physiognomies of its leads, the one by turns malevolent zombie and impassive feline, the other drop dead gorgeous - literally, as it turns out.