Pola X
Leos Carax
Pierre lives with his mother, Marie, in a château in Normandy. They are rich, beautiful and carefree. They love each other. Every morning he goes to see his fiancée Lucie. They love each other. One night, Marie tells Pierre that she has set a date for his marriage to Lucie. Pierre gets on his motorbike to take to news to his fiancée. But, at the edge of a dark forest, a darkly beautiful creature appears...
With : Guillaume Depardieu, Katerina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Laurent Lucas
Screenplay : Léos Carax, Lauren Sedofsky, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Image : Eric Gautier
Sound : Jean-Louis Ughetto
Editing : Nelly Quettier
Decors : Laurent Allaire
Music : Scott Walker
Screenplay : Léos Carax, Lauren Sedofsky, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Image : Eric Gautier
Sound : Jean-Louis Ughetto
Editing : Nelly Quettier
Decors : Laurent Allaire
Music : Scott Walker
Production : Arena Films
Distribution: Pathé Distribution
Distribution: Pathé Distribution
This film is Carax's first adaptation, inspired by Hermann Meville's Pierre: or the Ambiguities. This mysterious title of the film is in fact the acronym of the title of the novel in French. "Pierre is a wonderful novel of deceit... Deceit is when you don't know how to do anything, but nevertheless you try. It is when you pretend to be writing your life when in fact others are writing it for you" (L. Carax). In transposing Melville to modern France and with his transgressive cinema, Carax gives us "a crazy love story, a searing and overbearing vision of the social fracture, a parable on art and the statue of the artist" (S. Kaganski).