Movie

Mauvais Sang

1986 · 119 min

A dreamy, stylised plunge into restless young love and low-rent crime, gorgeous and moody but deliberately elusive.

Tagline: Love that burns fast but lasts forever.
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.
How it feels: Melancholic, romantic, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Love, obsession, isolation, crime
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
romanticstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 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: love
obsession
isolation
crime
identity
Places: big city
Era: near-future
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild