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This 5 page report discusses the 1984 movie by French film director Leos Carax. It tells the story of Alex, a young man, alone and drifting through the streets of Paris on a cold and dark night. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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realms of French costume drama or the dark surrealism of postmodern fearfulness. Neither does he appear to have any room in his repertoire for superficiality. Instead, his movies look at
the romance that occurs between people regardless of their circumstances or social status. His first feature film "Boy Meets Girl," released in 1984, set the stage for his two later
movies "Mauvais Sang" (1986) and "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" (1991) and allowed audiences to understand that Carax has the unique ability to create what amounts to as apparently
very personal cinematic poems. They are not movie "stories" as much as they are the lyrics or the verses of a poem that requires one to look beyond the primary
meaning of the words used to tell it. Personal Portrayal It should be noted that Denis Lavant (the same lead actor in each of Caraxs three features) is,
according to Rosenbaum (1994): "...roughly the same age and height as Carax and plays more or less the same character - or variations of the same character - named Alex,
a sort of anarchistic street punk" (pp. 13). To demonstrate just how personal the films are, Rosenbaum also points out that the real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre
Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar. Rosenbaum does not suggest that Alex is some sort of "literal stand-in" for Carax, but
he does make the point that the movies have numerous references that are clearly personal and may have multiple means but only for the movies director. However, the movies do
not carry the self-conscious, self-referencing of a movie maker such as Woody Allen. Instead, they are primarily reflections of the actual actions or events taking place on the screen and
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