Cœur Fidèle vs. Boy Meets Girl

Jean Epstein’s visual poetic realism of Cœur Fidèle (1923)
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Leos Carax’s abstract elegiac romantic poem Boy Meets Girl (1984)

The Author Vassilis Economou

Freelance film critic and hardcore cinephile.

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A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Syllas Tzoumerkas' sophomore feature is a powerful sociopolitical drama that juxtaposes the cynicism of the troubled Greek society while the middle-class decays internally.

La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV) – Jerusalem 33

Albert Serra’s cinema once again reaches the boundaries of experimentalism as he explores the historic figure (and death) of Louis XIV. Wilf Family Foundation Award at the 33rd Jerusalem International Film Festival.

L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance, 2011)

Bertrand Bonello's provocative tableau vivant that explores the female sexuality set in a brothel at the turn of the 20th century.

La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)

Philippe Grandrieux offers a multilayered dream-like filmic experience through the most radical experimental film of the recent years.

Boy Meets Girl (1984)

The first masterfully structured abstract elegiac work by Leos Carax as he becomes French cinema's most acknowledged enfant terrible.

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A Blast – Sarajevo 20

La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV) – Jerusalem 33

L’Apollonide (House of Tolerance, 2011)

La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)

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