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Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood)

Michel Piccoli (Actor), Juliette Binoche (Actor), Leos Carax (Director) | Rated: Unrated | Format: DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Set a few years before the 21st century, Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood) tells the story of Alex (Denis Lavant), the teen-age son of a murdered criminal who is enlisted by two former associates of his father to steal a valuable serum for an AIDS-like disease.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Celebration of Cinema!, Oct 30 2003
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D. O. Hanlon "dohanlon" (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood) (DVD)
Leos Carax's 1986 film "Mauvais Sang" was only the directors second. Yet it immediately confirmed his status as the inheritor of the New Wave legacy. The film is above all a celebration of cinema and all things cinematic (including the entrancing Juliette Binoche's flawless face).

The plot of the film is slight and inconsequential, concerning the heist of a serum that cures STBO an Aids like virus which effects people who "make love without being in love". Piccoli plays Marc the gang leader who enlists the quick fingered Alex (Lavant) to break into the Darley-Wilkinson building and steal the serum. Matters are complicated when Alex falls in love with Anna, Marc's vastly younger girlfriend Anna (Binoche).

Carax's film is a visual tour de force. His main concern in "Mauvais Sang" is a celebration of cinema. The film constantly alludes to Godard (Binoche is a dead ringer for Anna Karina in this role ), to Chaplin (Lavant's clown like movements) and to film Noir in genereal through the use of music and the presence of Piccoli.

A previous review likens the film to "Amelie". However barring a resemblance between Binoche and the cookier and altogether more cartoonish Audrey Tautou these likenesses are unfounded. Unlike the entertainment based Amelie, "Mauvais Sang" aspires to the art of cinema itself as a visual medium.

The visuals by the late, great Jean Yves Esscoffier, as stated constantlty allude to Godard's 1960's masterpieces (the use of extreme close ups and primary colours, and have been repeated since in more mainstream fare such as "The Professional" ("Leon" in Europe).

"Mauvais Sang" was a cult hit and winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in 1986. It paved the way for Carax's more ambitious 1991 stunner "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" and was the first film where Juliette Binoche's face (now an important cinematic institution) was used as a visual reference.

Mauvais Sang is a difficult, at times exasperating film, but it is also sublime and rewarding...

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3.0 out of 5 stars "Amelie" meets "The Third Man" in the Mind of an 19-year-old, Jun 17 2003
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C Ruiz-Esparza "PharOueste" (San Francisco, left of Albuquerque) - See all my reviews
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This is a good movie worth a watch and adding to your library. It is a curious mixture of being sophisticated, trying to be sophisticated, & trying too hard to be sophisticated to downright pretentious. It is dream-like and poetic at all those levels. It is also charming, sexy and beautiful. There are unexpected giggles. It is like the writer of the script, shadowed on film as "Alex"(Denis Lavant), wrote this draft when he was 18 and this group of very interesting and talented actors thought it would be fun to make his dream happen. It is definitely a showcase to indulge the youthful energy and talent of Lavant. It would not make my desert island 100, but I would not mind seeing it and would pay matinee price to see this in a theater with the right audience
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3.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming of Film Noir en Francais, Jun 13 2003
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It is a fun ride.
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