“A Boy Meets a Girl ” ( born Boy Meets Girl ) is a feature drama film made in 1984 by director Leos Carax in his own script. The main roles were played by Denis Laban and Mireille Perrier . The film “The Boy Meets the Girl” is the full-length debut of Leos Carax and the first part of the so-called “trilogy about Alex” [1] [2] , which includes the following two films - “ Bad Blood ” and “ Lovers from the New Bridge ”.
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Leos Carax |
| Producer | Patricia Moraz |
| Author script | Leos Carax |
| In the main cast | Denis Laban Mireille Perrier |
| Operator | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Composer | Jacques Pinault |
| Film company | Abilène |
| Duration | 100 min |
| A country |  France |
| Tongue | French |
| Year | 1984 |
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Story
Alex (Denis Laban) is a young man from whom the girl recently left to his best friend. Alex has not decided on a profession, he only dreams of becoming a film director someday. He wanders the streets of Paris, engages in conversations with random people. Once at a party in a circle of strange characters, Alex meets a girl named Mireille (Mireille Perrier). A young man recently left her. Once Mireille dreamed of becoming an actress, but now she is thinking about suicide.
Cast
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
| Denis Laban | Alex |
| Mireille Perrier | Mireille |
| Carol Brooks | Helen |
| Mayte Nair | May |
| Christian Kloarek | Thomas |
| Dominic Raymond | Neighbor |
Criticism
The film premiered in 1984 at the Film Criticism Week ". [note 1] [3] In his review for The New York Times , film critic Vincent Canby noted Mireille Perrier's brilliant camera work and good play, but drew attention to the film’s secondary nature [4] :
Carax is 24 years old, but “The Boy Meets the Girl” is like a film by a talented 18-year-old director who still spends more time inside the “ French Blue Eyes ” than outside. ... In the film “The Boy Meets the Girl”, one can recognize the influence of Jean-Luc Godard , the other - Francois Truffaut , and everywhere - something like the timid voice of Carax himself, who is trying to be heard through other images created by others.
Original textMr. Carax is 24, but Boy Meets Girl looks like the work of a talented 18-year-old, someone who still spends more time inside the Cinémathèque Française than outside it. ... In Boy Meets Girl , one recognizes a bit of Jean-Luc Godard here, something of Francois Truffaut there, and every now and then one hears what may be the faint, original voice of Mr. Carax trying to make himself heard around and through the images of others.
Alex as the Director Ego
Many film critics note that Alex, played by Denis Laban, is a projection of Leos Carax himself [2] [5] [6] [7] . The director's real name is Alex Christoph Dupont. Denis Laban is only a year younger than Carax, and in the film Alex tells Mireille that he is engaged in cinema, describing the type of his occupation: “At the moment I come up with the names for the films I’ll shoot.”
Notes
- ↑ Cannes Film Festival Independent Parallel Section organized by the French Film Critics Union
- ↑ Fergus Daly, Garin Dowd, 2003 , p. 133.
- ↑ 1 2 Andrey Kartashov. Denis Laban. Hearts ghostly motor . Session (September 10, 2015). Date of treatment October 11, 2016.
- ↑ 23rd Selection of La Semaine de la critique - 1984 . semainedelacritique.com . Film criticism week . Date of treatment December 4, 2015. Archived July 26, 2011.
- ↑ Vincent Canby . Boy Meets Girl , a tale of love by Leos Carax . The New York Times (October 11, 1985). Date of treatment December 4, 2015.
- ↑ Boy Meets Girl, a film by Leos Carax. The Return of Leos Carax (English) (PDF). Carlotta Films US (2012). Date of treatment December 4, 2015.
- ↑ Boris the Ludicrous. Carax Week: “A guy meets a girl” (1984) . Poster . Date of treatment December 4, 2015.
- ↑ Elbert Ventura. The Return of Leos Carax . The Slate Group (2012). Date of treatment December 3, 2015.
Literature
- Fergus Daly, Garin Dowd. Leos Carax . - Manchester University Press, 2003 .-- 188 p. - ISBN 9780719063152 .
Links
- " Guy Meets a Girl ” on the Internet Movie Database
- A guy meets a girl on the Rotten Tomatoes website