UW Cinematheque: 2 X Carax/Lavant
Mauvais Sang | France | 1986 | DCP | 105 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Leos Carax
Event Details
Date
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli
Binoche and Lavant play a pair of star-crossed lovers in Carax’s swooning, searing followup to Boy Meets Girl. The genre-bending plot ricochets gangsters and viral outbreaks as Carax continuously tops himself with cinematic spectacle, including an exhilarating, now-iconic tracking shot in which Lavant catapults himself down the street with acrobatic abandon to the pulse of David Bowie’s “Modern Love”.
Binoche and Lavant play a pair of star-crossed lovers in Carax’s swooning, searing followup to Boy Meets Girl. The genre-bending plot ricochets gangsters and viral outbreaks as Carax continuously tops himself with cinematic spectacle, including an exhilarating, now-iconic tracking shot in which Lavant catapults himself down the street with acrobatic abandon to the pulse of David Bowie’s “Modern Love”.
Cost
Free
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