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Dominican Rep. Pola X
- Original title
- Pola X
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 134 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Guillaume Depardieu
Yekaterina Golubeva
Catherine Deneuve
Delphine Chulliot- Petruta Catana
Laurent Lucas
Šarūnas Bartas- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Japan-Germany-Switzerland;
- Genre
- Drama | Erotic
- Movie Groups
- Herman Melville Adaptations | New French Extremity
- Synopsis
- Pierre, a successful young novelist, leaves his affluent family and his fiancee in order to save his illegitimate half-sister, when he discovers that she was abandoned by his parents on the day that he was born. The two travel with some friends of hers to Paris, where Pierre decides to become a real artist, and write a novel about the truth of the world.
- Awards
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1999: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)
- Critics' reviews
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"Plays out the notion of the forces of light being inexorably drawn to those of darkness (...) and maybe even an indictment of European indifference to the Balkans' agony."
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"The film is at once breathtaking and ridiculous, and it's the tension between these two extremes, as well as Carax's own intoxicating style, that makes it essential viewing."
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"Searingly potent and suggestively supple, Carax's images are rich with emotion and ideas."
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"An often intriguing, sometimes hypnotic work, but one that quickly starts to unravel in the final hour as it becomes clear there's not much beneath the emperor's clothes."
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"There's only one Carax, uncompromisingly ambiguous."
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"Carax has a wonderful cinematic eye and a personal feeling for editing rhythms, and his sense of overripeness and excess virtually defines him."
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