Pola X (Pierre ou les ambiguïtés) (1999)

April 2013 Movie Journal - Xanadon't (20 movies items)

" French director Leos Carax went a long way in making an international name for himself last year with the enigmatic and thrilling, ambitious and daring, somber and joyous Holy Motors. On the strength of that film, I've now gone back and looked at two of his previous works- first The Lovers on the Bridge, and now Pola X. Neither film is as brilliant as his most recent, but both deliver certain flashes of what grabbed my fascination so tightly last year. Pola X is a moody film. It's angsty and"

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" 8.12. "

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Film Journal 2011 (88 movies items)

" July 15th - Although I am not familiar with Herman Melville's novel, Leos Carax is adapting some dense and difficult source material, and to his credit he does not shy away from it and does not take the easy way out. In the beginning they establish a relatively normal straight forward prestige film where Pierre has a normal life as a writer in a large house and is getting married to a beautiful women. This is seemingly done to contrast the insanity that Pierre ends up encountering, but the b"

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"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"

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"1999 Features a scene of unsimulated fellatio, cunnilingus and intercourse between Guillaume Depardieu and Yekaterina Golubeva."