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Pola X [DVD] [1999] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Language: French
  • Subtitles: English
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.66:1
  • Number of discs: 1
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  • ASIN: B000059XTM
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe downward spiral presented as a genuinely bold and intense cinematic achievement.
By Jonathan James Romley on 22 Dec. 2007
Format: VHS Tape
As others have no doubt previously noted, 'Pola X' (1999) was the much anticipated return feature from former "cinema du look" stalwart and enfant-terrible Leos Carax; a bold and imaginative filmmaker who made a name for himself in the early to mid nineteen-eighties with the quirky and melancholic romantic fantasy films Boy Meets Girl (1984) and Mauvais Sang (1986), before taking his central themes of unrequited love and alienated Parisian youth to the next conceivable level with the film Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf. That particular film was supposed to be the one that would finally introduce Carax to a wider cinematic audience; finding the filmmaker refining his usual themes and structural preoccupations with a larger budget and much in the way of creative freedom. Sadly, things didn't go to plan; the eventual film - a wildly uneven though often quite captivating blend of romantic folly and violent social realism - went massively over-budget and over-schedule before finally limping out with a limited release almost half a decade after Carax had initially started the project.

As with films like Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen and the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, subsequent years have seen a re-appraisal of said film, with many people being drawn to Les Amants Du Pont-Neuf; seeing it as some sort of flawed epic or a minor masterpiece showcasing the triumph of imagination and free-thinking independence during the last gasp of intelligent, daring and entirely unique European film making. Time, however, has been less kind to the film in question; with the general consensus of most viewers and professional critics being that Pola X is muddled, confusing, plodding and pretentious.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsSurprisingly conventional and joyless for Carax
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 5 Dec. 2007
Format: DVD
Pola X is at once the most accessible and least interesting film from infant terrible Leos Carax. His modernised adaptation of Herman Melville's Pierre, or The Ambiguities is certainly less disjointed than his other features, but it lacks the inspired standout moments that make them worth watching even if they don't entirely work. If you're expecting something like the joyful sequence set to David Bowie's When I Live My Dream in Boy Meets Girl you'll be bitterly disappointed: this is a joyless film that wanders into unintentional self-parody without ever providing much to smile about. This is self-conscious Miserablism in the classic tradition.

It starts out as glacially classical French film-making before moving more into better photographed nouvelle vague with all the usual clichés - self-indulgent disaffected hero (Guillaume Depardieu) flirting with ill-defined violent politics in the pursuit of an equally ill-defined truth while constantly lying to himself; utterly hopeless leading lady (Katerina Golubeva) that either producer or director wants to have sex with delivering a pitifully bad and painfully stilted performance; 'daring' unsimulated sex scene (albeit featuring body doubles); clumsy symbolism and a bleak-chic ending you don't need to have read the book to see coming. There's an interesting note of criticism in the anti-hero's search for truth in poverty and his need to increasingly create a fiction to support his self-image (he persuades his sister to pose as his wife and his fiancé to pose as his sister and while desperate for money constantly refuses to touch the money he and his family have) and it earns Brownie points for its attitude to racism in France, but it's not quite enough.
Jacques Rivette declared it the best French film of the last ten years, but I guess that just implies he doesn't see many French films these days.
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1.0 out of 5 starsAn incoherent and unpenetrable urban epic
By k.r.haynes@durham.ac.uk on 14 Jan. 2001
Format: VHS Tape
Leos Carax has attempted in Pola X to give us an urban epic, the result is however an incoherent and unpenetrable mess. Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) is from a wealthy family, a young man riding high on the success of an anonymously published novel, by the end of the film he is physically and mentally crushed. It would be logical assumption that the body of the film charts this descent from success to despair. Instead we see a conglomoration of collapsing relationships that remain unexplained and frustratingly the viewer knows that these are essential to any understanding or interpretation of the film.
The catalyst for Pierre's descent is the appearance of a vagrant girl (Yekaterina Golubyeva) who reveals that she is in fact Pierre's half sister Isabelle, abandoned in eastern Europe by their Father who was diplomat. Throughout we are left wondering why Pierre accepts such an appalling story at face value without any proof or further investigation. Abandoning his Mother Marie and fiance Lucie he takes Isabelle to Paris. There appears to be no reason for his actions, no confrontation with Marie for the truth of Isabelle's existence and no explanation to Lucie as to why Pierre takes this decision.
Other relationships are of much greater interest. That between Marie and Pierre has strains of an incestual one, with resonances of Gertrude and Hamlet. Without any revelations of the past and so little contact between the two characters it feels as though Carax has lost an opportunity and this would undoubtedly have made a far more interesting story. More importantly there is the relationship between Pierre, Lucie and Thibault (Laurent Lucas).Read more ›
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