Leos Carax
Leos Carax "Leos Carax" is a study of the films of this popular "enfant terrible" of contemporary French cinema. The authors draw on a variety of intellectual sources, from Deleuze's philosophy of…
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Leos Carax
"Leos Carax" is a study of the films of this popular "enfant terrible" of contemporary French cinema. The authors draw on a variety of intellectual sources, from Deleuze's philosophy of Cahiers-based film criticism to theories of art and literature, in order to disentangle the complex web of biographical mythology, formal and intellectual cinematic concerns, flamboyant imagery and intertextual references woven by Carax and his films in the last two decades of the 20th century. The key ingredients and influences of Carax's four films (including "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" and "Pola X") are examined here: Paris, pop music, flanerie and amour fou, mannerist and neo-baroque aesthetics, the "Nouvelle Vague" and contemporary naturalist cinema.
Daly and Dowd argue that critical instincts seeking the key to the visionary poetics of Carax's cinema can most profitably directed towards the recent