Pola X (1999)

Title: Pola X (1999)
Director/Writers: Leos Carax/Leos Carax, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Herman Melville, and Lauren Sedofsky
Cast: Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Laurent Lucas, Patachou, etc.
Genre: Drama
Duration: 128 minutes
Languages: French, with soft English subtitles.
Description: Rosenbaum's short review: "I haven’t read Herman Melville’s Pierre, or the Ambiguities, but it’s reportedly director Leos Carax’s favorite novel. What there is of a plot to this 1999 modern-dress adaptation, which Carax wrote with Lauren Sedofsky and Jean-Pol Fargeau, concerns a wealthy author (Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard) living in Normandy in semi-incestuous content with his mother (Catherine Deneuve). Upon encountering a soulful eastern European war refugee (Katerina Golubeva) who claims to be his half sister, he runs out on his wealthy fiancee (Delphine Chuillot) and retreats to a funky part of Paris to write another novel. There’s clearly some sort of self-portraiture going on here. A 19th-century romantic inhabiting a universe as mythological as Jean Cocteau’s, Carax (Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood, The Lovers on the Bridge) has a wonderful cinematic eye and a personal feeling for editing rhythms, and his sense of overripeness and excess virtually defines him. He’s as self-indulgent as they come, and we’d all be much the poorer if he weren’t. Characteristic of his private sense of poetics is this film’s final dedication, near the end of the closing credits, "to my three sisters" – it appears on-screen for less than a second. Pola, incidentally, is the acronym of the French title of Melville’s novel; X alludes to the fact that Carax used the tenth draft of the script."

Source: DVDRip. Not mine.
File size: 1.36GB | Resolution: 608 x 352 (1.727:1)
Video: 1373kbps XviD 29.970fps
Audio: 48kHz 128kbps 2-channel Joint stereo MP3

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Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971) aka Four Nights of a Dreamer

Title: Quatre nuits d'un rêveur (1971) aka Four Nights of a Dreamer
Director/Writers: Robert Bresson/Robert Bresson and Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cast: Isabelle Weingarten, Guillaume des Forêts, Maurice Monnoyer, Lidia Biondi, Jérôme Massart, Patrick Jouané, etc.
Genre: Drama
Duration: 78 minutes
Languages: French, with hard English subtitles; soft Spanish subtitles available here.
Description: From Allmovie.com: "Four Nights of a Dreamer is a loose adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novella White Nights, with the action transposed from 19th century Russia to modern-day France. One night, Jacques (Guillaume Des Forets), a young man with artistic aspirations, sees a girl (Isabelle Weingarten) trying to commit suicide by jumping from a bridge. When he prevents her from jumping, Marthe tells him that she has become desperate waiting for her lover, who left her almost a year ago but promised to return. Jacques asks Marthe to meet him by the bridge the next night and the girl agrees. They spend the following three nights wandering through Paris, and Jacques tries in vain to cure Marthe of the memories of her elusive lover. The same story was previously filmed by Luchino Visconti as Le Notti Bianche."

Source: Bootleg 16mm Telecine. From Bressoniac's DVDR @ KG.
File size: 894MB | Resolution: 624 x 432 (1.444:1)
Video: 1326kbps XviD 25fps
Audio: 48kHz 256kbps 2-channel Dolby AC3

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