CinémaTuesdays When Boy Meets Girl:
The Cinema of Leos Carax
Each new film by Leos Carax is an event. With the recent release of his latest film, Holy Motors, FIAF pays homage to this enigmatic, controversial, and visionary director whose films include some of the most arresting scenes in the past thirty years of French cinema.
See two of Carax’s best shorts and all five of his features, from his debut Boy Meets Girl to his most recent film, both starring Carax’s cinematic alter ego Denis Lavant.
On Tuesday, February 26, FIAF is honored to welcome Carax to introduce the 7pm screening of Holy Motors, followed by a Q&A with Richard Brody, The New Yorker film critic.
Tuesday, February 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013 FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
Films are in French with English subtitles unless otherwise noted
Free Member tickets are distributed on the day of the event. Please present your Membership card at the box office. Member tickets may be purchased in advance for $2.
Mauvais sang
Directed Leos Carax, 1986. Color. 116 min.
With Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant
In French with English subtitles
An intoxicating swirl of science fiction and noir that earned Carax the Prix Louis Delluc at Cannes, Mauvais sang is set in a stark near future where those who have loveless sex are afflicted with disease. When Alex (Lavant) is hired by two criminals to steal the vaccine that could stop the epidemic, he finds himself smitten with one of their mistresses.
“In his second feature…Carax lives up to his billing as "the natural heir of Jean-Luc Godard.” —The New York Times
Friday, February 8, 2013 at 7:30pm Rescheduled for Tuesday, February 26 at 12:30 & 4pm
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Refunds must be requested by March 7.
The Fri, Feb 8 screening of The Lovers on the Bridge was cancelled due to the snowstorm.
The film has been rescheduled for Tuesday, February 26 at 12:30 & 4pm. It replaces the film Holy Motors.
The 7pm screening of Holy Motors and Q&A with Leos Carax will go on as planned.
Free Member tickets are distributed on the day of the event. Please present your Membership card at the box office. Member tickets may be purchased in advance for $2.
Merde
Directed by Leos Carax, 2008. Color. 35 min.
With Denis Lavant, Jean-François Balmer, Julie Dreyfus
In French & Japanese with English subtitles
Released in 2008, Tokyo! is a trio of shorts set in the titular city, featuring new work by Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-ho, and Carax, who delivers an anarchic character study of a raving, unclassifiable creature (Lavant) who demands to be addressed as “Merde.” This darkly funny short also serves as a precursor for Holy Motors, where “Monsieur Merde” reappears.
Boy Meets Girl
Directed by Leos Carax, 1984. B&W. 100 min.
With Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier
In French with English subtitles
Due for military service and miserable from a recent break-up, Alex, a young filmmaker, finds comfort in the company of a similarly suffering teenage girl. Prone to documenting the tiniest details and searching for romance on a grand scale, Alex is reminiscent of Carax himself, whose debut here is a celebration of cinema and idiosyncrasy.
“Charming first feature”—The New York Times
Venue
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Free Member tickets are distributed on the day of the event. Please present your Membership card at the box office. Member tickets may be purchased in advance for $2.
Living in a countryside castle with his mother, a bourgeois writer enjoys a carefree life until he is confronted by a woman claiming to be his sister. With life thrown into disarray, the man plunges into a relationship with her, turning his back on both his mother and his fiancée. Shocking, explicit, yet still steeped in the romance of Carax’ other work.
“Pola X has enough fireworks to keep you in your seat. When it's over, you'll know you've had an experience.”—Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Sans titre
Directed by Leos Carax, 1997. Color. 9 min.
With Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve
In French with English subtitles
Venue
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 12:30 & 4pm Holy Motors replaced by Lovers on the Bridge at 12:30 & 4pm Holy Motors will be screened at 7pm
Refund Info
More Info
Refund for tickets purchased via Ticketmaster
An automatic refund will be issued to your credit card. Refunds will appear on your statements in 7-10 days.
Refund for tickets purchased at the FIAF Box Office
Bring your purchased ticket and the credit card used for payment (if you paid by credit card) to the Box Office to receive a refund.
Refunds must be requested by March 25.
The 12:30 and 4pm screenings of Holy Motors are cancelled and replaced with screenings at the same times of Leos Carax’s The Lovers on the Bridge. Details below.
The 7pm screening of Holy Motors and Q&A with Leos Carax will go on as planned. Details below.
Free Member tickets are distributed on the day of the event. Please present your Membership card at the box office. Member tickets may be purchased in advance for $2.
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At the FIAF Box Office
55 East 59th Street
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Les amants du Pont-Neuf
Directed by Leos Carax, 1986. Color. 116 min.
With Michel Piccoli, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant
In French with English subtitles
Legendarily beset by production delays, The Lovers on the Bridge was greeted with wide acclaim upon its eventual release. Set at and around the famed Pont Neuf, the film chronicles the love between a young addict and a painter who is losing her sight, capturing their messy interdependency and ecstatic tenderness.
Venue
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Free Member tickets are distributed on the day of the event. Please present your Membership card at the box office. Member tickets may be purchased in advance for $2.
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Acclaimed director Leos Carax presents Holy Motors and participates in a Q&A following the screening. Moderated by Richard Brody, The New Yorker film critic.
Holy Motors
Directed by Leos Carax, 2012. Color. 115 min.
With Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
In French & English with English subtitles
New York Times Critics’ Pick!
Carax’ first feature in more than a decade confirms the originality of his vision as well as the talents of longtime collaborator Denis Lavant. In the nocturnal hours, Monsieur Oscar appears to live many lives—exacting murderer, doting father, ogre-like savage—but it’s unclear which is exactly real. And if he is merely acting, then whom is he acting for? Hallucinatory, vital filmmaking.
“A gripping surrealist odyssey that makes most other films look very buttoned-up.“— The Guardian (UK)
Venue
FIAF, Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Special thanks to Leos Carax, Joan Dupont, Oleg and Dima Dubson, Marison Martinez, Amaury Augé, and Unifrance.
Cinema programs at FIAF are made possible by Institut français, Unifrance, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
FIAF Winter 2013 Season Sponsors: American Airlines, the official airline of FIAF; OpenSkies, the Cultural Services
of the French Embassy; Florence Gould Foundation; Institut français; New York State Council on the Arts; New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs; The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation; and Robert de Rothschild
