leosC A R A X Leos Carax (MERDE) is a French writer-director and former film critic whose poetic and visually stunning early features BOY MEETS GIRL (1984) and MAUVAIS SANG (1986) helped catapult actor Denis Lavant and cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier to international stardom, while establishing Carax's name as one of key directors in the stylish early '80's cinéma du look movement, popularized by Jean-Jacques Beineix and DIVA in 1982. BOY MEETS GIRL won the Prix de Jeunesse at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival while MAUVAIS SANG won the prestigious Prix Louis Delluc after being selected in the Official Competition at the 1986 Berlin International Film Festival. Carax's international art-house breakthrough came in 1991 with the release of LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE), reuniting his MAUVAIS SANG stars Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche as homeless lovers living on the Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris; it won three prizes at the European Film Awards, including Best Actress, Best Cinematography and Best Editing. His fourth feature, POLA X, based on the incest-themed novel Pierre or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville and starring Catherine Deneuve and Guillaume Depardieu, was a sensation at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, where is was an Official Selection. Carax recently appeared as an actor in his friend Harmony Korine's comeback film MISTER LONELY (2007), in which he appeared as a Charlie Chaplin impersonator.
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