French Gothic is quite the insidious aesthetic, and POLA X might be the Frenchest thing ever made. His sensibilities are most definitely that of a stereotypical French painter. ![]() The best, most expensive student film ever made? I think Leos should have been a painter. Undisciplined, instinctive, unhinged stuff like this needs to exist. And yet definitely beguiling, indelible, and idiosyncratic. Definitely can understand why any producer wouldn't be caught dead giving this madman a cent for the rest of his career. Synopsis: Pierre, a successful young novelist, leaves his affluent family and his fiancee in order to save his illegitimate half-sister, when he discovers that she was abandoned by his parents on the day that. Definitely the most miserable, thoroughly unenjoyable and oppressive film I can remember. Pola X is a film directed by Leos Carax with Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chulliot. Definitely nihilistic, mean, cynical and ice cold. Definitely infuriating, overlong, inconsistent and borderline unwatchable. Definitely beyond excessive and self-indulgent. Definitely the most audacious literary adaptation of the past twenty years alongside BEAU TRAVAIL – also French/Melville (can we get that Lynne Ramsay MOBY DICK-in-space joint already?!). ![]() This explains a lot in regards to what we are forced to endure while watching this film. It is rumored that Herman Melville went insane while writing 'Pierre: or the Ambiguities' on which this film is based. Definitely still the most batshit insane piece of cinema with god-level location scouting not named POSSESSION. Leos Carax's 'Pola X' is at best problematic and at worst an incoherent mess.
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