Three Films by Leos Carax 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray collects the first three feature films from one of contemporary cinema's most visionary filmmakers. Featuring Boy Meets Girl, Mauvais sang and The Lovers on the Bridge, this Criterion collection showcases the stylistic freedom, romantic intensity and visual brilliance that established Leos Carax as a singular voice in world cinema.
 
Burning with stylistic freedom, the first three features by Leos Carax are cinema at its most ecstatically sensorial and deliriously romantic. Built around virtuosic, intensely physical performances from Denis Lavant as three different characters named Alex, these tales of outsiders, criminals and doomed lovers living on the edge blaze with the whirlwind abandon of youth and the thrilling highs and torturous lows of all-consuming passion.
 
Love letters to the city of Paris, with its streets transformed by cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier into expressive dreamscapes, these three films erupt in moments of anarchic euphoria that fuse sound and image to heart-stopping effect.
 
Directed by: Leos Carax
Starring: Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Mireille Perrier, Michel Piccoli
1984–1991 / French / 6 Discs
 
Film Info
• Spine #1326
 
Films In This Set
 
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Made when he was just twenty-three years old, Leos Carax's rapturous debut feature returns French cinema to the unfettered experimentation of the New Wave while updating it for the punk 1980s. In velvety black and white, Boy Meets Girl evokes a surreal nocturnal Paris populated by lost souls and wandering misfits.
 
Mauvais sang (1986)
With his exhilarating second feature, Leos Carax infuses a neonoir scenario with a delirious strain of doomed romanticism for a tour de force of avant-pop invention. Constructed with the kinetic verve of a musical, Mauvais sang explodes in moments of pure cinematic adrenaline and remains one of the defining achievements of 1980s French cinema.
 
The Lovers on the Bridge (1991)
With this feverish saga of amour fou, Leos Carax pushed his ambitions to glorious new heights. The result is a visually arresting and emotionally overwhelming masterpiece set against the turbulent margins of Paris.