Denis Lavant is a brooding teenager torn between two women in future Paris. It's a sci-fi gangster movie that actually revolves around romance. It is hard to explain, but the tone of the movie is sci-fi even if the elements of science fiction remain unseen. Somehow it feels futuristic without looking it. Lavant's ringtone is Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, alluding to tragic love though I'm not sure the ending is so tragic. Perhaps it is actually freeing. There is a famous scene in which Lavant dances to Modern Love by David Bowie. Maybe dance isn't the right word. He contorts his body and drags and beats himself as if he is trapped. Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha does an homage to this scene. Leos Carax is a stylish director. And I love his clever pseudonym. Put the spaces in the right plae and it spells Le Oscar a X, like The Oscar goes to X.
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