1986 · drama · romance · french
Mauvais Sang
Directed by Leos Carax1h 59m1986
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.
Our read: Mauvais Sang (1986) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive drama · romance · french entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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