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Mauvais Sang

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Mauvais Sang
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Time Out says

In his second feature (following Boy Meets Girl), Carax combines his personal concerns - young love, solitude - with the stylised conventions of the vaguely futuristic romantic thriller. Loner street-punk Alex (Lavant) joins a gang of elderly Parisian hoods whose plan to steal a serum that will cure an AIDS-like disease is complicated by the deadly rival strategies of a wealthy American woman, and by Alex falling for the young mistress of a fellow gang-member (Piccoli). Again Carax's virtues are visual and atmospheric rather than narrative; while the script may occasionally smack of indulgent pretension, there is no denying the exhilarating assurance of individual sequences, and the consistency of Carax's moodily romantic vision. Certainly he would do well to create stronger female characters and avoid lines lumbered with laconic poeticism. But the film is, finally, affecting, thanks to a seemingly intuitive understanding of colour, movement and composition, and to an ability to draw from earlier films without ever seeming plagiaristic.
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Release Details

  • Duration:119 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Léos Carax
  • Screenwriter:Léos Carax
  • Cast:
    • Serge Reggiani
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Hans Meyer
    • Julie Delpy
    • Carroll Brooks
    • Denis Lavant
    • Michel Piccoli
    • Hugo Pratt
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