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Leos Carax – C’est pas moi AKA It’s Not Me (2024)

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A self-portrait of the director and his oeuvre, revisiting in free-form more than 40 years of the author’s filmography.

C.est.pas.moi.2024.FRENCH.1080p.WEB.x264-FW.mkv

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Runtime: 	39 min 40 s
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Language(s):French, English
Subtitles:French (FR),English

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Leos Carax – Pierre ou, Les Ambiguïtés [Pola X TV Cut] (1999)

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Synopsis:
Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who’s about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late one night in the woods: that she is Isabelle, his sister, abandoned by their father. Pierre breaks off with Lucie and his doting mother, heading for Paris with Isabelle, intent on knowing the dark side of human nature. He begins a novel, sending chapters under a pseudonym to his publisher; his relationship with Isabelle moves beyond the fraternal; and, in winter, the frail Lucie comes to live with them. Family jealousies mount, and Pierre may have discovered despair instead of the truth.

TV Version:
The alternate longer TV version of POLA X entitled “Pierre ou, Les Ambiguïtés”, edited in three episodes with an additional 40 minutes of footage. This version was shown for the first time on September 24, 2001 on Arte German-French TV channel.
“It is not an “extended version” or a “final version” of the film “Pola X”, but a different proposition for television.” – Leos Carax

Episode 1 – A la lumière:

Episode 2 – A l’ombre des lumières:

Episode 3 – Dans le sang:

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Leos Carax – Annette (2021)

admin — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:26:12 +0000

Los Angeles, today. Henry (Adam Driver) is a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humor who falls in love with Ann (Marion Cotillard), a world-renowned opera singer. Under the spotlight, they form a passionate and glamorous couple. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious little girl with an exceptional destiny, will turn their lives upside down.

4.07GB | 2h 20m | 1024×552 | mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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Leos Carax – Mauvais sang aka The Night Is Young (1986)

admin — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 07:00:54 +0000

Quote:
In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious new disease named STBO is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is locked away in an office block, out of the reach of those who need it most. An American woman blackmails two aging crooks, Marc and Hans, into stealing the STBO serum. Marc recruits Alex, a rebellious teenager whose father worked for him before getting himself killed. Although Alex has a girlfriend, Lise, he ends up falling for Marc’s young lover, Anna…

Bonus Features
Deleted Scene (5:24)
Outtakes (20:22)
Trailer (2:07)

2.62GB | 1h 58m | 956×576 | mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Leos Carax – Strangulation Blues (1980)

admin — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Leos Carax’s debut short that won the Grand Prix du court-métrage at the Festival international du jeune cinéma de Hyères.

Quote:
A very Parisian night. Paul plays at strangling Colette because she doesn’t inspire him a single, damn camera shot. Early in the morning, he takes flight because the future is for those who get up early. Was it too late? It’s too early to say.

105MB | 16 min 44 s | 720×540 | mkv

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Leos Carax – Holy Motors (2012) (HD)

admin — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 18:17:48 +0000

Quote:
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being (DL) moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old to the point of dying; sometimes destitute, sometimes wealthy. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man…

It’s clear that DL is playing roles, and plunging headfirst into each – but where are the cameras, the crew, the director? He seems horribly alone, exhausted from being chained to all these lives that are not his, from having to kill enemies that are not his enemies, having to embrace wives and children who are not his. But sometimes, conversely, we feel DL is wounded by having to leave, the moment his scene is over, other beings he would have liked to leave no longer.

Where is his home, his family, his rest?
–Wild Bunch

5.46 GB | 01:45:30 | 1280×696 | MKV

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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Leos Carax – Holy Motors (2012)

admin — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 23:13:17 +0000

Driven around Paris by a loyal driver (Édith Scob), a mysterious man (Denis Lavant) dresses up in costumes and plays a number of strange, semiscripted roles.

Manohla Dargis wrote:
“Holy Motors,” from the French filmmaker Leos Carax, is a dream of the movies that looks like a movie of dreams. It is a reverie that begins, appropriately, with a seated audience waiting in the dark (like us) and then cuts to a dimly lighted room, where a man (Mr. Carax) rises from a bed that he shares with a dog. He lets the sleeping dog lie (no need for trouble just yet) and creeps over to a mysterious door hidden in a wall. With a strange metal key that’s apparently grafted to one of his fingers, he unlocks the door and — like Little Nemo tumbling into Slumberland, Dorothy crossing over the rainbow and Alice falling down the rabbit hole — leaves one world for another.

That world is full of laughter, horror, rapture and eddies and swells of despair. It’s an episodic work of great visual invention — from scene to scene, you never see what’s coming — that reminds you just how drearily conventional many movies are. You want three acts? How dull. A pretty protagonist? Oh, please. The triumph of the human spirit? Go away. Mr. Carax has nothing for you. What he has are weird tales; beautifully whirling, gyrating bodies; an anguished song, a sense of drift and the steady (heart) beat of lament. And still, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet: at one point a diabolical creature crawls out of a Paris sewer, bites off a woman’s fingers and then licks Eva Mendes’s bare underarm, painting her creamy skin red with his tongue.

Ms. Mendes, as a fashion model kidnapped from a shoot, scarcely seems to notice. She comes across as an almost indifferent damsel in distress, even after a sly wardrobe change, and she’s one of several characters or types who circulate throughout, sometimes briefly. The most important of these is a chameleon of a thousand faces played and sometimes just pantomimed by Denis Lavant. An extraordinary physical specimen, with a lumpy, pockmarked mug suggestive of volcanic stone and a body that’s jumpy with sinew and muscle, Mr. Lavant has appeared in most of Mr. Carax’s movies, including as an acrobatic fire eater in the 1991 gorgeous swoon of a film “Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.” Here Mr. Lavant plays male and female, old and young, the living, the dying and the dead.

He enters in a white wig and black suit, walking away from a large Streamline Moderne house, a swirl of curves and portholes that sits on a hill like a luxury liner. The joyful sounds of giggling children ring out: “See you tonight, Dad! Work hard!” (Earlier, the caws of complaining sea gulls fill the air.) It’s charming and sweet, or would be, if not for the armed guards. The house, it appears, sits on a compound with multiple cars and guards and a waiting chauffeur, Céline (Édith Scob), a sober beauty who opens the door of a white limousine for the man she calls Monsieur Oscar. (Mr. Carax’s original name was Alex Christophe Dupont; Leos Carax is an anagram for Alex Oscar.)

Mr. Oscar is a man on the move and, you discover, a man of movement, motion and moving (as in pictures). After chattering into a phone, like a regular master of the universe, Mr. Oscar begins busily transforming himself in the back of his now improbably spacious limo crammed with boxes, bric-a-brac and a dressing room mirror. When he emerges a few beats later, for the first of his multiple, magical metamorphoses, he looks like a shriveled old woman and almost unrecognizable. Bent over, he wobbles along the bank of the Seine, tapping a cane and muttering, as if to himself, instead of the bodyguards trailing him. He ends up shaking a beggar’s tin on a bridge, ignored by the passers-by who surge around him like a pitiless current.

Within minutes she has disappeared into the limo, and Mr. Oscar is on the move again, scanning another dossier for what he and Céline cryptically refer to as appointments. The nature of these appointments and his role(s) in them are an abiding, beguiling mystery. Mr. Carax never explains his intentions — and why Mr. Oscar appears like a demon in one scene and a mustachioed baldie with a knife in the next — leaving you to piece together meaning, or meanings. All movies demand interpretation, but Mr. Carax doesn’t seem interested in your solving his puzzle, which allows you to solve it as you like. About all that’s clear is that Mr. Oscar works for an entity, perhaps God, which also makes this a movie about filmmaking and the ecstasy of creation.

It’s a gift for moviegoers to have this much freedom, and exhilarating. In “Holy Motors” you never know where Mr. Carax will take you and you never know what, exactly, you’re to do once you’re there. Sometimes you may be amazed or delighted; other times, you may feel restless or uninterested. No matter: there’s always another new vision coming up. If that sounds confusing, it isn’t. Although the movie doesn’t have an obvious narrative through line, its episodes are nonetheless deeply connected by mood, visual style and Mr. Lavant. They are connected, in other words, by Mr. Carax’s singular, fluid artistic vision. And while at times it feels as if “Holy Motors” had been cobbled together from a million movies, it mostly, wonderfully, feels unlike anything else: it’s cinema reloaded.

2.11GB | 1h 55mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9D7B3E35A1F04F3/Holy.Motors.2012.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Polish, Greek

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