Leos Carax
Also Known As: Léos Carax, 레오 카락스, Alex Christophe Dupont, レオス・カラックス, Леос Каракс, 李歐·卡霍, Leoss Karakss, 莱奥·卡拉克斯, 레오스 카락스, 레오 까락스, 레오스 까락스
Biography: Leos Carax (born November 22, 1960) is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge (1991) and the controversial Pola X (1999). His professional name is an anagram of his first and middle names.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
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Birthday: November 22, 1960
Age: 64 years old
Gender: Male
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977
Overview: 977 is a coded number relating the attempt to “test the harmony with algebra”, to figure out the mathematical regularities of emotional and spiritual realms of human being. The characters have volunteered for the experiment to be put through not only scientific researching, but also through the everyday trials of friendship, love, attractions, envy and “the strongest of affects” – the curiosity. Thus, the scientific experience turns into human one, and a result is unpredictable…
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-10-26
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The House
Overview: A moving world of spirits and ghosts, condemned to brush against one another without really meeting since they have all emerged from a single perpetual dream: that of a young man who no longer wants to wake up, immersed as he is in this world of fascinating spectres.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1997-10-01
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Mister Lonely
Overview: In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter, Shirley Temple.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-02
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King Lear
Overview: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-22
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The Lovers on the Bridge
Overview: Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-16
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It's Not Me
Overview: This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s filmography and questions the major stations of his life, while capturing the political tremors of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-06-12
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Holy Motors
Overview: We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-02
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Annette
Overview: The story of Henry, a stand-up comedian with a fierce sense of humour and Ann, a singer of international renown. In the spotlight, they are the perfect couple, healthy, happy, and glamourous. The birth of their first child, Annette, a mysterious girl with an exceptional destiny, will change their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-07
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Baby Annette, à l'impossible ils sont tenus
Overview: In 2019, the director Leos Carax proposes to Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet to design, make and animate "Annette", the puppet of his new film. This one will be the child of the couple Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver. Propelled into the world of cinema, begins for this charismatic duo a unique and singular adventure in their career as puppeteers. Faced with the demands of the filmmaker, the impossible, they are held.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-01
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Mauvais Sang
Overview: Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-26
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The Ministries of Art
Overview: Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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An Urban Allegory
Overview: A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arrives with her seven-year-old son, Jay, and begs the director to give her a chance.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-12-18
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I Did Not Die
Overview: Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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DRIVE IN Holy Motors
Overview: A making-of documentary of Leos Carax's Holy Motors. Present during the shoot, Salomé catches exacting and inspiring moments of the production and adds interviews with its main participants (the actors Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue, and the cinematographer, Caroline Champetier).
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-21
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Process
Overview: The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Investigation of a Film Above Suspicion
Overview: A documentary on the set of the ultra eventful Leos Carax film "Les Amants du Pont-Neuf", which spans three years of filming and knows an accumulation of disasters, increasing an initial budget of 32 million francs to more than 120 million francs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-06
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Mr. X
Overview: The image of a mysterious, solitary filmmaker - a cineaste maudit - who flees from both the media and the public, is unrelentingly bound to the figure of Leos Carax, in France. Elsewhere, the real focus is on his films and he is considered to be an icon of world cinema. Mr.X dives into the poetic and visionary world of an artist who was already a cult figure from his very first film. Punctuated by interviews and unseen footage, this documentary is most of all a fine-tuned exploration of the poetic and visionary world of Leos Carax, alias "Mr.X".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-20
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The Sparks Brothers
Overview: Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, celebrating the inspiring legacy of Sparks: your favorite band’s favorite band.
Genres: Documentary Music Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-18
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Le Pont-Neuf des amants
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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