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Pola X

1999 · 134 min

An intense, unsettling plunge into obsession and self-destruction, visually striking but emotionally gruelling.

Tagline
An erotically charged descent into madness.
Overview
A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • madness
  • family
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism6
Romance6
Tension7
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Leos Carax
Written by
Jean-Pol Fargeau, Leos Carax, Lauren Sedofsky
Starring
Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva, Catherine Deneuve, Delphine Chuillot, Laurent Lucas, Patachou, Petruta Catana, Mihaella Silaghi
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
134 min
Country
France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland
Languages
French

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