Leos Carax is a French director born in Suresnes, celebrated for wildly romantic, visually audacious films that treat cinema as an act of pure, excessive imagination. Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang established his reputation as a young prodigy of French cinema working with actor Denis Lavant, a partnership that continued with The Lovers on the Bridge, an extravagantly produced, enormously expensive romance between two homeless people beneath the Pont-Neuf. Holy Motors, following a mysterious man performing a series of unexplained roles across a single day in a limousine, marked a triumphant late-career return after a long hiatus and became one of the most celebrated art films of the 2010s. Annette, an operatic musical starring Adam Driver, extended his taste for extravagant, genre-defying spectacle. Carax's rare, uncompromisingly personal output has made him one of French cinema's most singular visionary stylists. Read more