In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, plus the Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth draft version of the script that was used to make the film. I am your sister, Isabelle." Not that I have ever met Leos Carax, the director of "Pola X," so that I can say for sure he's as tempestuous and impulsive as the subject of his film, but you aren't described as an enfant terrible at the age of 39 without good reason. The cool elegance Deneuve brings to the opening scenes makes a useful contrast with the industrial anarchy of the conclusion, with those terrorist musicians pounding joylessly on their anvils. Polanski is also a fugitive from the U.S. criminal justice system; he fled the country while awaiting sentencing on five criminal charges, including rape. Carax edited the TV version along the lines of serials from his childhood, in particular Vidocq. Plot Keywords. A passionate incestuous relationship will ensue. [5] The new scenes in the alternative version were produced during the original shoot with extra money raised by producer Bruno Pesery to allow them to exceed their contractually agreed 140 minute running time. Every morning, Pierre leaves on the inherited motor bike of his father to visit Lucie, his fiancée. They are alarmingly close; they call each other "my brother" and "my sister," he lights two cigarettes and gives her one, he visits her nude in her bath and so on. The world will think she's his wife. Feverishly hunched beneath a blanket against the cold, he scribbles out his new novel, which will be great, which will be true, while the soundtrack itches with the sound of his pen scratching against the paper, like rats sharpening their nails on sandpaper. Pierre was written following Melville's Moby Dick, and after the classical architecture of its prose, the next novel came as a shock with its lurid fevers. The soundtrack was produced by Scott Walker and features some instrumental tracks by him, as well as contributions by Sonic Youth and Bill Callahan, who also has a cameo appearance in the film. Meanwhile, he and Isabelle are not living together like most brothers and sisters, and there is a sex scene that would be shockingly graphic if we could quite see it. Pola X is a 1999 French romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. Golubeva will wear on the nerves of some witnesses with her pitiful little-girl voice and her narcissistic way of hiding her face with her hair, but if anyone looks like she was raised in a hovel in the woods, she does. "All my life I have waited for something that would push me beyond this," he says, waving a metaphorical arm to encompass Lucie, Marie, the chateau. Pierre is consumed by a manic need to throw away wealth and happiness, and share Isabelle's poverty and misery. Also on the scene, having recently returned from his labors on the Chicago Stock Exchange, is a dark-browed cousin, Thibault (Laurent Lucas), who in his satanic way resents that Pierre will take Lucie out of his grasp, and also perhaps that Lucie will take Pierre out of his grasp. We were unable to submit your evaluation. It takes a raving lunatic to know one. It revolves around a successful young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. They will live together like brother and sister, he tells Isabelle. Pola X (1999) Parents Guide Add to guide . some occassional use of foul language including the f*** word, there is a scene towards the end where Guillaume Depardieu(pierre) shoots a man dead. Plot Summary Certainly Pierre, his hero, is an inspired visionary, a youth inflamed by romantic fantasies, who sees himself as a great artist and is in love with reckless gestures. There is a mystery woman (Katerina Golubeva), deep-eyed, long-haired, ragged and wolf-like, who shadows Pierre. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Pola απάντησε σε ELENI 27's topic Βάφτιση Σ' εμένα έφεραν 3 ομπρέλες, νομίζω ότι οι περισσότεροι έχουν Μάιος 25,2012 Dealing as it does with Pierre's incestuous obsessions with a mother and a half-sister, it was not what admirers of the great white whale were expecting. An alternate longer TV version entitled "Pierre ou les ambiguïtés", edited in three episodes with an additional 40 minutes of footage, was shown for the first time on 24 September 2001 on Arte German-French TV channel. Turned away from fleabag hotels, they reside finally in a vast warehouse occupied by a group of terrorists, who breed their plots while a deathly conductor stands on a catwalk and conducts his orchestra in a mournful symphony for synthesizers, steel drums and iron bars banged on with hammers. Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) lives with his mother Marie (Catherine Deneuve) in a chateau in Normandy by the riverside of the Seine. The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. One night, Marie announces to Pierre that she arranged the date for his marriage to Lucie. She speaks with a strong accent from the countries of the East: "Pierre...you are not the only child. Movie information, genre, rating, running time, photos, trailer, synopsis and user reviews. Synopsis contains a scene where Yekaterina Golubeva(Isabelle) is bathing topless & later has a scene depicting cunnilingus and woman on top position with penetration(unsimulated). The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. He tells the story of Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu), a spoiled young aristocrat who has written a trendy best-selling novel and lives in a chateau with his mother Marie (Catherine Deneuve). With Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot. Pola X is a 1999 French romantic drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve.The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.It revolves around a successful young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. Pierre is engaged to his cousin Lucie (Delphine Chuillot), who lives in a neighboring chalet and is an ethereal blonde waif; his mother could no more be jealous of Lucie than if Pierre adopted a cute spaniel. "Pola X" may not be successful and its closing passages may drift into the realm of the ludicrous, but "when it's over," as critic Stephen Holden so accurately wrote after it played in the New York Film Festival, "you'll know you've had an experience." It takes a raving lunatic to know one. Please try again later. "[6][7], List of mainstream movies with unsimulated sex, "Entretien avec Leos Carax, à propos de la version télé de "Pola X, http://download.pro.arte.tv/archives/fichiers/01379750.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pola_X&oldid=964212975, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 June 2020, at 05:57. The sight of her fills him with deep churnings and obscure dreams. Directed by Leos Carax. Rated NR I am your sister, Isabelle." A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister and he begin an unusual relationship with her prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fiancée The film is a reasonably close adaptation of Herman Melville's 1852 novel Pierre. | They are very beautiful, rich, carefree and they like themselves. One night as he is roaring through the woods on his motorcycle, he surprises her lurking in the gloom, pursues her and hears her story: "Believe me, Pierre, you are not an only child. More specifically, there is one brief close up of penetration, with the woman on top, shot from behind under dim but sufficient lighting, clearly unsimulated.