Mauvais Sang (1986)
Feb 22, 2005Near-Future Romance
The second film from Leos Carax, a near-future set romance that bursts with freshness and originality
Denis Lavant
Deep in the Woods (2000)
Sep 22, 2000French Slasher Film
Stylish French slasher film about actors being stalked as they put on a performance of Little Red Riding Hood at a country estate. The fairytale is adeptly wound in and out as metaphor.
Tokyo! (2008)
May 14, 2024Anthology of Surreal Japan-set Tales
Directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon Ho make an anthology of strange and surreal tales that take place in Tokyo
Holy Motors (2012)
Oct 27, 2012Surrealism/Man's Cryptic Journey Through Various Disguises
Genuinely mind-screwing effort from Leos Carax. Imagine a version of Cosmopolis as hijacked by Alejandro Jodorowsky - a series of surreal vignettes that arrives at a major "huh?" ending
The Night Eats the World (2018)
Apr 15, 2019French Zombie Film
The zombie genre has become creatively overused and exhausted in recent years but this French entry plays with an appealing originality, sort of like a low-key version of Dawn of the Dead where a man builds a Parisian apartment building into his own paradise