Mauvais sang
France,
1986, 128 min
Shown in 1987
CREDITS
- dir
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Léos Carax
- prod
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Alain Dahan
- scr
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Léos Carax
- cam
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Jean-Yves Escoffier
- cast
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Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Caroll Brooks
- source
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Les Films du Volcan, 16-18 rue Vulpian, 75013 Paris.
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Juliette Binoche in person.
OTHER
This stunning new film by Leos Carax has earned him comparisons with such virtuoso filmmakers as Lynch and Scorsese. Awarded France’s Prix Delluc as Best Film of 1986, it more than confirms the promise of Boy Meets Girl (SFIFF 1985), made when he was only 24. Like Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, Bad Blood’s poetic fireworks are suspended from a noir-ish plot involving a robbery and a doomed love triangle. Declaring its passion for cinema with every frame, the film recalls the best New Wave films of the 1960s, but is firmly rooted in a palpable love of working with actors. And Carax is rewarded by magnificent performances from his central trio—Denis Lavant, the versatile mime introduced in Boy Meets Girl, Juliette Binoche (star of Philip Kaufman’s forthcoming film of Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being) and veteran character actor Michel Piccoli. The camerawork of Jean-Yves Escoffier is nothing short of dazzling.
—Peter Scarlet
FACTOID #111
Both parents of TV star Mariska Hargitay attended the Festival, but not at the same time. Actress Jayne Mansfield attended in 1966 on a lark, and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay attended in 1989, having appeared as himself in György Szomjas’s film Mr. Universe.
