Leos Carax
Leos Carax
Alex Christophe Dupont, best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl, and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neufand Holy Motors. His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth22 November 1960
CitySuresnes, France
CountryFrance
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked together by a common fate and solidarity, slaves to an increasingly virtual world. A world from which visible machines, real experiences and actions are gradually disappearing.
I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.
Even a fiction film is hard to end. You can going on shooting and editing a documentary forever.
My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.
We all get a little tired of being ourselves sometimes. The answer is to reinvent yourself, but how do you do that and what is the cost?
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
The virtual world is not the enemy. The pioneers invented a world they believed in, but the followers must follow that world whether they believe in it or not.
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
I feel that cinema is my country. But it's not my business.
Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?
I'm not a cineaste. I've made so few films. Sometimes it feels each one is the last one or the first one.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.