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Boy Meets Girl

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Original title

Boy Meets Girl

Year

1984

Running time

100 min.

Country

France

Director

Leos Carax

Screenwriter

Leos Carax

Cast

Music

Jacques Pinault

Cinematography

Jean-Yves Escoffier (B&W)

Producer

Abilene

Genre

Drama. Romance | Psychological Drama. Romantic Drama

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed first feature by wunderkind filmmaker Leos Carax (he was only 22 at the time) is an unconventional, moody tone poem that centers on a young man cruising the dark side of Paris. Having just split with his lover, the young man, Alex (Denis Lavant), is depressed and, happening upon a party, decides to crash it. There he meets an aging actress who has also just left her lover, and the two begin a complex relationship that grants them a temporary reprieve from the cruelties of everyday existence.

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Awards: 1984: César Awards: Nominated for Best First Work

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Critics' reviews

"The director's slight uncertainty creates a fascinating tension that works in 'Boy Meets Girl's' favor. You empathize with the characters' struggles even as they are both kept at a critical distance."

Keith Uhlich: Time Out
"A debut feature of extraordinary passion and vigor."

Calum Marsh: Village Voice
"Leo Carax's first film seizes on a particular element of intellectualized youthful ennui with uncommon clarity and ferocity."

Chuck Bowen: Slant
"Ecstatic cinema and ecstatic living join together in a pressurized promise of glory and misery, a flameout waiting to happen-and to be filmed."

Richard Brody: The New Yorker

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