Boy Meets Girl

Marking the first collaboration between the director and his key muse Denis Lavant, Carax’s debut feature is a deft study of youthful ennui on the streets of Paris. Only in his early 20s at the time of filming, the extraordinary clarity of Carax’s determined vision belied his young age.

Inspired by the youthful works of the nouvelle vague, while connected to, but distinct from, the other films of the cinéma du look movement, Carax’s film is filled with a burning vigour embodied by the strikingly luminous black-and-white cinematography of Jean-Yves Escoffier (a key collaborator who shot Carax’s first three features). With Mireille Perrier.