1984 / 100'’ / status : completed / long feature-film
Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. His girlfriend Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party…
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Leos Carax’s first feature film is a striking black-and-white portrayal of modern love in slow-motion. The film’s original soundtrack includes compositions by David Bowie and Serge Gainsbourg. BOY MEETS GIRL achieved both critical and commercial success, offering a poignant look at youthful aspirations and disenchantment.
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Press
“Charming first feature.”
The New York Times
“A fascinating tension.”
Time Out
“Breakout aesthetic success.”
Indiewire
“The meteoric first film by the French director Leos Carax (...) Ecstatic cinema and ecstatic living join together in a pressurized promise of glory and misery, a flameout waiting to happen.”
The New Yorker
“Breathtaking and full of those subtle, delightful, indefinable little things that he likes to play with.”
Le Monde
