Modern Loves: Leos Carax
The nocturnal beauty of a Paris that’s left for the misfits. La Nouvelle Vague absorbed, contested and reshaped. Poetic romanticism heightened with entrancing visuals and audacious style. Leos Carax – a name not born into but created, himself a “creature of cinema” as BFI puts it – begun writing for Cahiers du Cinéma as a teenager in the late 1970s. His literacy of the medium and deep cinephilia is reflected in his first three features – films of ‘amour fou’ loosely known as the Alex Trilogy – where the the titular character (embodied by the magnetic Denis Lavant) is the director’s on-screen alter ego immersed in the possibility of youth, seeking authentic connection with the world and others. Carax has said publicly that he makes “private films.” We introduce you to the private world of this singular filmmaker who challenges the form of the modern film with every new work, first through his debut trio of features, then with his latest one, the cinematic anti-biopic It’s Not Me.
The Lovers on the Bridge
- Sat, Nov 29
- Sun, Nov 30
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 126 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1991 Language: French
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Édith Scob, Georges Aperghis
Romance... In a most unlikely place.
Boy Meets Girl
- Fri, Dec 5
- Sun, Dec 7
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 104 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1984 Language: French
Starring: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Maïté Nahyr, Elie Poicard
In Paris at night, Alex (Denis Lavant), a young aspiring filmmaker, grapples with heartbreak after his girlfriend leaves...
Mauvais Sang
- Fri, Dec 12
- Sun, Dec 14
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 119 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1986 Language: French
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Hans Meyer, Julie Delpy
Love that burns fast but lasts forever.
It’s Not Me
- Sat, Dec 20
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Leos Carax Run Time: 42 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024 Language: French
Starring: Denis Lavant, Leos Carax, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken
Evoking the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the late New Wave master, his own...