While the screen flashes and flickers, little else is happening.
Mauvais Sang
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France, Switzerland · 1986
1h 59m
Director Leos Carax
Starring Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Michel Piccoli, Hans Meyer
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
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A sexually transmitted disease called STBO spreads when people have sex without emotional commitment. Naturally, many teenagers are falling ill because of their desire to have sex as a form of exploration rather than commitment. A serum that cures patients exists, but has been locked away in a government building.
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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 swooning head over heels for his medium.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
Distinctive feel.
Bittersweet, haunting, and as original and eccentric as homage movies get.
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