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Drama, Romance 134 min
Rotten Tomatoes76%Metacritic65IMDb
An erotically charged descent into madness.
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.
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Prestige, contemplative, overwhelming and bleak.
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When Leos Carax's film POLA X premiered in 1999, it was seen then as part of the New French Extremity movement, with critics and audiences picking up on its unsimulated sex scene. Yet that forms only a brief few minutes of quite ample film. Two decades on, audiences of today ought to look past the sensation and appreciate the film for what it really has to offer: a convincing contemporary take on Hermann Meville's psychological novel PIERRE, and the way Carax interweaves Melville's structure of 19th-century wealthy elites with harrowing references to contemporary France, Bosnia and the plight of Balkan refugees. The son of a deceased diplomat of some note, Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) lives in splendor in rural France, in a manor house with his widowed mother (Catherine Deneuve). Things are going well for young Pierre: a novel he has written has become a bestseller and he is engaged to the lovely Lucie (Delphine Chuillot). But then he encounters a mysterious woman named Isabelle (Yekaterina Golubeva) who tells him in broken French that she is his half-sister, born to Pierre's diplomat father and an unknown Balkan woman. Isabelle is in fact less a character and more a spectral prese
Read the whole review on TMDB**Pola X** (1999) is a French drama; it's actually a novel by Moby Dick writer Herman Melville with ten sections in probably 1852 novel, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities; and French inspiring director mr. Leos Carax choose to direct it. It is a loose, kinda dark, and unconventional adaptation of mr. Melville's The film follows Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) who died by car accident, a celebrated, wealthy young writer who abandons his privileged life, his château, and his fiancée after a mysterious woman (Yekaterina Golubeva, wife of Estonia director Sharuna Bartas, she's also dead, sadly) appears claiming to be his long-lost sister, they were long lost. Plunging into poverty, an incestuous relationship, and Parisian bohemia, Pierre undergoes a tragic downward spiral under Carax's visionary but highly polarizing direction. It has cute/good scene.) BtW, the title is an acronym based on the French title of the Melville novel (Pierre ou les ambiguïtés) combined with the Roman numeral "X," which indicates that this was the 10th draft of the script.))
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