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Movie Poster ©AAA Classics 1986
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Directed by | Leos Carax |
Produced by | Denis Chateau Alain Dahan Philippe Diaz |
Written by | Leos Carax |
Starring |
Michel Piccoli Juliette Binoche Denis Lavant |
Music by |
Benjamin Britten David Bowie Sergei Prokofiev |
Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
Edited by | Nelly Quettier |
Distributed by | AAA Classics |
Release date
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Running time
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116 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Mauvais Sang (French pronunciation: [movɛ sɑ̃], Bad Blood), also known as The Night Is Young, is Leos Carax's second film. Released in 1986, the film played at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival before being nominated for 3 César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc. The film had 504,803 admissions in France. The title refers to the eponymous poem by Arthur Rimbaud in A Season in Hell.
In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious new disease named STBO is killing young people who make love without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is locked away in an office block, out of the reach of those who need it most. An American woman blackmails two aging crooks, Marc and Hans, into stealing the STBO serum. Marc recruits Alex, a rebellious teenager whose father worked for him before getting himself killed. Although Alex has a girlfriend, Lise, he ends up falling for Marc’s young lover, Anna...
Christian Faure was the assistant director of the movie.