Synopsis
Boy Meets Girl (1984) is Leos Carax's debut feature, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Shot in stark black and white across nighttime Paris, it follows Alex, a young man dreaming of making films while his own heart falls apart.
His girlfriend has left him for his best friend, so Alex drifts through the city, striking up odd conversations and rehearsing confrontations that never happen. At a strange party he meets Mireille, freshly abandoned herself. Two lost souls latch onto each other for a few hours while the whole sleepless city seems to hold its breath.
Carax made this at twenty-four and arrived with a voice fully his own: jagged editing, music running from David Bowie to the classical canon, and the unforgettable face of Denis Lavant, who'd become his on-screen alter ego for decades. It runs on mood, not plot — melancholy, infatuation, and big-city loneliness. One for lovers of the French New Wave and art cinema that refuses to spell things out. Stream Boy Meets Girl online on iFILM.
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