9/1/2023 0 Comments Film pola xIt’s not hard to think David Lynch must have felt inspired by this when writing Twin Peaks : The Return. Every character is distorted through a phantasmagoric lens and reduced to their most extreme reflection of their inner emotional lives. We seem to continually jump between several emotional arcs of Pierre over several timelines and you’re left to wonder where one begins and the other ends. In Carax fifth feature film, we follow both a young man’s sexual awakening, a writers desperate struggle to revive once glorious career and a depressed man’s search for something more in life. Gradually, the siblings develop romantic feelings for each other and soon Pierre finds himself in extreme new territory. Pierre flees the mansion with his sister and travels towards Paris, where he starts working on his next novel to support their new life. One day he is followed by a strange woman, who turns out to be his long lost sister that suffered under the terror of their vile father. We follow the titular Pierre, a young engaged author who lives in a safety of his mothers giant mansion far away from the real world. ![]() French master Leos Carax pulls no punches with his 1999 film Pola X, where he adapts Herman Melville’s infamous 1852 novel “Pierre, or The Ambiguities”.
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