Pola X

5/29/2018

When Leos Carax's film POLA X premiered in 1999, it was seen then as part of the New French Extremity movement, with critics and audiences picking up on its unsimulated sex scene. Yet that forms only a brief few minutes of quite ample film. Two decades on, audiences of today ought to look past the sensation and appreciate the film for what it really has to offer: a convincing contemporary take on Hermann Meville's psychological novel PIERRE, and the way Carax interweaves Melville's structure of 19th-century wealthy elites with harrowing references to contemporary France, Bosnia and the plight of Balkan refugees. The son of a deceased diplomat of some note, Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) lives in splendor in rural France, in a manor house with his widowed mother (Catherine Deneuve). Things

5/15/2026

**Pola X** (1999) is a French drama; it's actually a novel by Moby Dick writer Herman Melville with ten sections in probably 1852 novel, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities; and French inspiring director mr. Leos Carax choose to direct it. It is a loose, kinda dark, and unconventional adaptation of mr. Melville's The film follows Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) who died by car accident, a celebrated, wealthy young writer who abandons his privileged life, his château, and his fiancée after a mysterious woman (Yekaterina Golubeva, wife of Estonia director Sharuna Bartas, she's also dead, sadly) appears claiming to be his long-lost sister, they were long lost. Plunging into poverty, an incestuous relationship, and Parisian bohemia, Pierre undergoes a tragic downward spiral under Carax's visionary but hi