Леос Каракс и его фильмы — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello! Olga Sergeeva is with you and you are on the KinoTraffic channel. Today I will tell you
2. 0:07about the French director Leos Carax, whose life is always shrouded in secrets, I
3. 0:11will advise which of his films you should definitely watch and you will find out how this director is connected
4. 0:18with Russia. A new wave of interest in his person and work is associated with the success of Annette's film
5. 0:24awarded the Palme d'Or for directing at the 74th Cannes Film Festival. Who is this
6. 0:31mysterious Leas Carax? He hides his name under a pseudonym, rarely gives interviews, his life
7. 0:38is full of tragic losses. Since the early 1980s, he has directed 6 feature films, 6 short films
8. 0:44and two music videos for Carla Bruni. Alex Christophe Dupont was born in 1960 in the suburbs of Paris.
9. 0:51His pseudonym is an anagram of the director's real name and Oscar. Throwing a systemic
10. 0:58education in his early youth, he did not receive a cinematic, but like
11. 1:02many French directors, he began with articles in Cahiers du cinéma, along with post-punk Luc
12. 1:08Besson and glamorous Jean-Jacques Benex, becomes the main director of the new new French wave
13. 1:14or neo-baroque ... After the speeches of students and workers, 1968 expressed a general pessimistic
14. 1:22sentiment in France during the regime of François Mitterrand. Art and cinema of that time
15. 1:27focused on a radical break with the past, a rejection of tradition. Disappointed and romantic
16. 1:34heroes lead a marginal existence, cut off from society and immersed in the world of individual
17. 1:41experiences. How does Karax shoot? Despite the desire to break with tradition, any work by
18. 1:48Carax testifies to a deep knowledge of the history of cinema. In his paintings, the rhythm and pace of
19. 1:54editing, a special composition of the frame, original camera solutions, a rich musical range, the
20. 2:01use of light, unusual details, color, dance and body plastics, and forward movement are very important
21. 2:07. For Karax, the main thing was not the story itself, but how it was told.
22. 2:15What kind of film by Leos Carax is a must-see? The director boldly declared himself in 1984 with a
23. 2:23black and white love story. A guy meets a girl who was a lyrical memory
24. 2:28of a movie classic. He opened a conventional trilogy about Alex. The hero is played by an actor with a memorable
25. 2:35characteristic appearance and the name Denis Laban. In fact, he was the embodiment of the director himself.
26. 2:42On the screen, 20-year-old Alex cannot find himself and accidentally meets Mireille, who wants to die
27. 2:48. The main female role is played by the muse of the director of that period, Mireille Perrier. A flash of love, a
28. 2:54broken heart, suffering, and often a tragic denouement, are part of almost all
29. 3:00of the director's early films. Bad Blood comes out in 1986. The plot is influenced by the mass hysteria of the AIDS epidemic.
30. 3:09The action takes place in the near future in Paris. Two gangsters steal a rare vaccine from the laboratory
31. 3:14. Formally, this is a robbery film, but in essence it is the same eternal story of an undivided
32. 3:20and tragic feeling. Carax's new great love, Juliette Binoche, already appears in it.
33. 3:25The director did not hide the fact that all the films he shot were only about himself and about his life.
34. 3:34Lovers from the New Bridge came out in 1991. This is also the story of the meeting of two loneliness in the scenery of
35. 3:42imperfect Paris. Alex, who lives on the bridge, falls in love with a talented, losing sight,
36. 3:47artist. And again water and fire, love and blood, insane passion and suffering from unrequited
37. 3:52feelings. Again we have before us a naked personal theme of a painful parting with an actress, turned
38. 3:59into cinema poetry. The scandalous film was shot for three years, ruined three producers, did not pay back the
39. 4:05money spent and to this day remains one of the most expensive French film projects ever
40. 4:10filmed. The long-suffering picture becomes a turning point in the director's career. Everyone refuses to
41. 4:17invest in his films, but the viewer will find out about him outside of France. At the 1999
42. 4:25Cannes Film Festival, he presents his most provocative film by Paul Х. It is an adaptation of Pierre
43. 4:31's novel or Herman Melville's ambiguity. The book, which became a major failure for the writer, played the
44. 4:37same cruel joke with the director. Her hero Pierre, played by Guillaume Deperdieu, a writer, abandons
45. 4:43his planned and well-organized bourgeois life to help an unknown needy
46. 4:49girl from Eastern Europe. The picture, filled with anxious moods of self-destruction and images of
47. 4:56war in the Center of Europe, did not find understanding. The film was severely criticized in the world cinema press.
48. 5:03Karax took on a new project only in 2008. And it's not just a lack of funding.
49. 5:09The author lives and works at his own pace. Without the opportunity to realize his full length,
50. 5:16in the almanac of short films Tokyo !, he removes the short story "Shit", where a strange man in green
51. 5:22begins to terrorize the Japanese capital. The new image is another step of the director in talking with
52. 5:28society about modern monsters. He continued this conversation in an absurd form in his
53. 5:342012 film Holy Motors. Carax returns Denis Laban to the streets of Paris. Mr. Oscar in the
54. 5:43same green suit with dirty feet and an insane face is already traveling in a limousine, transforming
55. 5:49into completely different people. The fantastic plot raises a lot of questions, the main ones of which are who
56. 5:55we are and what is reality. Holy Motors is absurd and daring, full of allegories and melodrama,
57. 6:02surrealism and irrational passion. The need and the opportunity to tell us his new - old
58. 6:10story came to the author only in 2021 in the film Annette. The abyss of suffering, into which the director himself is immersed
59. 6:17already 10 years after the death of his beloved woman, he revealed in the story of love and pain of a successful
60. 6:22stand-up comedian and opera diva performed by Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. In his seventh
61. 6:29decade, Karax shoots a film-confession not so much about a person as about a creator, which is impossible to
62. 6:35speak, but only to sing! The film's soundtrack consists of hits from the 70s glam rock band
63. 6:41Sparks. The 140-minute musical show is a fascinating and heartbreaking story about love, the
64. 6:48path in art, the test of glory, bitter loss and hope of gain. How is Leas Carax connected with
65. 6:57Russia and why is he so loved in our country? All of Carax's films have had great success over the
66. 7:03years with the intellectual audience in Russia. His grandfather and grandmother left the USSR at the beginning of the last century.
67. 7:09The director was greatly influenced by Russian classical literature, especially Dostoevsky.
68. 7:15He used the music of Shostokovich and Prokofiev in his films, appreciates Andrei Platonov and Leonid
69. 7:21Andreev. One of the last muses and the director's wife was the Russian actress Katya Golubeva, who
70. 7:27died early and left his daughter Nastya to him. His heroes form their own counterculture,
71. 7:34live outside the traditional framework, do not spare themselves and are energetic clots of rage,
72. 7:40passion and love. For the average balanced European all this will be somehow too much,
73. 7:45but for the Russian mentality, it will be just right!
74. 7:50Leos Carax is the poet of the screen, after so many years of silence he confirmed his status as a unique
75. 7:56cult director and again managed to tell about the eternal in an ingeniously simple and indecently beautiful way!
76. 8:02And that's all for me! Olga Sergeeva was with you! Watch my new episodes on
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