Boy Meets Girl (1984)
Boy Meets Girl (1984)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x438 | x264 @ 1151 Kbps | 99 min | 1,23 Gb
Audio: French AAC 2.0 @ 160 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
DVDRip | MKV | 720x438 | x264 @ 1151 Kbps | 99 min | 1,23 Gb
Audio: French AAC 2.0 @ 160 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Leos Carax
Writer: Leos Carax
Stars: Denis Lavant, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks
Paris by night. Alex, 22, wants to become a filmmaker. He is fascinated by first times and his girlfriend, Florence, has just left him for his best friend, Thomas. First break-up, first attempted murder: Alex tries to strangle Thomas, but gives up and wanders the streets. That evening, Mireille, a girl from provincial France who has come up to Paris to make commercials, is left by her boyfriend. Alex witnesses this separation. These two tormented souls run into each other at a party….
… In Boy Meets Girl, when someone gets their heart broken we see blood pour from their shirt, when a couple kiss on the sidewalk they spin 360 degrees as if attached to a carousel, when Alex enters a party an feels out of place, its because the most interesting people in the world really are in attendance; like the famous author who can't speak because of a bullet lodged in his brain, or the miss universe of 1950 standing just across from the astronaut. This film is the missing link between Jean Piere Jenuet, Michel Gondry, and Wes Anderson, whose stylistic flourishes and quirky tales of whimsy, all have a parallel with different visuals, musical, and emotional cues in these Carax movies.
Every line of dialog, every piece of music and every effect and edit in this movie resonated with me on some emotional level, some I lack words to articulate. There are many tales of a boy meeting a girl, but rather than just explore the banal details of any particular event this movie captures the ecstatic truth of adolescent passion and disappointment. The other movies you want to watch can wait. See this first. If I were to make films, I would want them to be like this, in fact I wish all films were like this, where the ephemeral becomes larger than life, and life itself becomes a dream.
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Boy Meets Girl (1984)
