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Mauvais Sang

Love that burns fast but lasts forever.

1986 · 1h 59m · UNRATED Crime, Drama, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by Leos Carax

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Overview

Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.

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Fresh

Carax does not want to tell you a story. He wants to express, in the purest way he can, his infatuation with storytelling through images and genre conventions, performance and voyeurism, cinema and cinephilia.

David Fear, Time Out New York
Fresh

A salute, at once moody and ebullient, to the cinema of the past and the ferocious intensity of youth.

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice

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