Podcasts TV There's Sometimes a Buggy Valentines Day 2022 - Special Subject With Love From Leos Carax BOY MEETS GIRL (1984), LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (1991) & ANNETTE (2021)

Valentines Day 2022 - Special Subject With Love From Leos Carax BOY MEETS GIRL (1984), LES AMANTS DU PONT-NEUF (1991) & ANNETTE (2021)

Published: Feb. 11, 2022, 6:59 a.m.

For our Valentine's Day 2022 episode, we examine Leos Carax's unique take on romantic love, from the adolescent autocritique of\xa0Boy Meets Girl\xa0(1984) to the anarchy and ecstasy of\xa0Les amants du Pont-Neuf\xa0(1991) to the abyss-gazing of his mind-boggling musical,\xa0Annette\xa0(2021). We discuss Carax's repeated association of love with abjection; his critique of the artist; and the many links between comedy, violence, and puppets.

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Time Codes:

0h 01m 00s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 Boy Meets Girl (1984) [dir. Leos Carax]

0h 28m 20s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 Les amants du Pont-Neuf \xa0(1991) [dir. Leos Carax]

0h 47m 07s:\xa0\xa0\xa0 Annette (2021) [dir. Leos Carax]

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