Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)

Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier. It was Caraxs first feature film. The plot follows the relationship of an aspiring filmmaker Denis Lavant, who has just been left by his lover and a suicidal young woman Mireille Perrier, who is also reeling from a failed romance.

The film premiered at the 1984 International Critics Week, an independent parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival. It was released in France onNovember 1984. Vincent Canby reviewed the film for The New York Times Mr. Carax is 24, but Boy Meets Girl looks like the work of a talented 18yearold, someone who still spends more time inside the Cinematheque Francaise than outside it. ... In Boy Meets Girl, one recognizes a bit of JeanLuc Godard here, something of Francois Truffaut there, and every now and then one hears what may be the faint, original voice of Mr. Carax trying to make himself heard around and through the images of others. Canby added however that Boy Meets Girl has been handsomely photographed by JeanYves Escoffier in blackandwhite images that look as velvety smooth as fudge sauce atop vanilla ice cream. The performances are perfectly decent Miss Perrier is especially good in a long Godardian monologue. Whats still missing is the film makers own idiosyncratic personality, which, if it exists, could surface in Mr. Caraxs next film. The film had a total of 131,042 admissions in France.

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