Leos Carax

Leos Carax is a French realizer (of his true name Alex Dupont) born the November 22nd 1960 with Suresnes.

Biography

It realizes initially in 1980 a 17 minutes short-measuring entitled Strangulations blues . Its urban poetic universe, its sharp skinned style and its lyricism do of them one of the most promising realizers at the beginning of the Années 1980. Servant boy Meets Girl (1984) with Denis Washing and Mireille Perrier then Bad Blood (1986) with Denis Washing, Juliette Binoche and Michel Piccoli is films full with fulgurances and black romanticism which marked their time.

Leos Carax then attacks an ambitious project with large budget the Lovers of the Pont-Neuf , interpreted by its actor fetish Denis Washing and its partner of then, Juliette Binoche. Exceeded budget, problems with repetitions, the rumor swells on a cursed turning. Carax owes the completion of its film with the intervention of Christian Fechner (the film was with the abandonment during several months). In addition to this commercial but not artistic failure, the personality at the edge of the Autism of Carax or simply intransigent with her art does not encourage the producers to support it. In 1991, the Lovers of the Pont-Neuf is nevertheless a critical success, a half public failure in France, but a film which makes the round the world tour.

It will have to be waited until 1999 so that kind Pola X (interpreted by Guillaume Depardieu, Katerina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve), very badly accommodated by the press and the public (official selection with Cannes). But ardently constant by some (of which the scenario writer Jacques Rivette: " For me, most beautiful French film of the 10 last années"). A longer version, diffused in television with the beginning of the year 2000, was the occasion of a revision and a judgment much more favorable.

It currently prepares its new feature film entitled Scars , turned in English, between the E. - U. and the Russia.

At the end of 2007, it will carry out in Japan one of the three segments of a feature film entitled " Tokyo! " (the two other realizers are Bong Joon-Ho and Michel Gondry). Its participation has as a title " Merde".

It produced clips for Iggy Pop, New Order, and Carla Bruni (it wrote with her the words of a song ( Quelqu'un said to me) of its first album).

As actor, he played in the Ministries for Art of Philippe Garrel, King Lear of Jean-Luc Godard, The House of Sharunas Bartas, Process of Charles S. Leigh, 977 of Nikolay Khomeriki, and in next film of Harmony Korine.

In December 2004, Leos Carax obtains a retrospective and a freehand with the French Cinémathèque where it decides to program fourteen works of which After us, the flood of Howard Hawks (1933), Fleurs of paper of Guru Dutt (1959), Crowd of King Vidor (1928), the Small one Reads Jean Grémillon (1930) and the American Soldier of Fassbinder (1970).

Catalog of films

like Realizer

as Actor

External bond

  • Leos Carax on IMDb
  • new Portrait of Leos Carax by Lionel Attic for cinetudes.com

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