- Born
- Birth nameAlexandre Oscar Dupont
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Leos Carax made several short films and also wrote film criticism, then at the age of 24 years made a very strong first feature Boy Meets Girl (1984). The film played at the 1984 Cannes film festival and was a critical triumph. It paved the way for Carax's second feature Bad Blood (1986) (Bad Blood). That film was a giant step forward in the same direction that he was going in with his first film. Both films were visually stunning and focused on young love and also alienation. With his reputation and talent at its peak, he set out to make what seemed it seemed like would be another triumph. The Lovers on the Bridge (1991) (The Lovers on the Bridge) was the result of three long years of very difficult production; Carax spent a fortune building some of the sets and filming some mind-blowing sequences. Unfortunately, neither critics nor audiences favored what was a truly grand vision of the themes he dealt with in his first two films. Carax went into an a 8 year long exile, but finally returned with Pola X (1999). It was a departure from his other films and another critical flop.- IMDb Mini Biography By: che elias
- ParentsJoan DupontGeorges Dupont
- RelativesJon Alex(Cousin)
- Frequently casts Denis Lavant.
- Long run/walk side shots.
- His films usually focus on theme of love between a man and a woman.
- The main characters are his alter-egos (except for Pierre in Pola X (1999), which is also Carax' only direct literary adaptation).
- Uses brief bits of stock footage (for example swans during main titles of Bad Blood (1986), air strike in Pola X (1999) or shots of human movements in Holy Motors (2012)).
- His professional name, Leos Carax, is an anagram of his first and middle names, "Alex Oscar."
- Juliette Binoche was his companion between 1986 and 1991.
- His nom de plume, Leos Carax, can be read Le oscar a X (L'oscar à X), which means The oscar goes to X, a funny way to pretend to get the statue.
- The retrospective viewing of Leos Carax 's movies was organized as part of the official program during 2007 Golden Apricot International Film Festival held in Yerevan, Armenia.
- He has a daughter, Nastya Golubeva Carax, from his relationship with Yekaterina Golubeva.
- [on Denis Lavant playing Alex in Holy Motors (2012)] If Denis had said no, I would have offered the part to Lon Chaney or to Chaplin. Or to Peter Lorre or Michel Simon, all of whom are dead.
- [on Pola X (1999)] The film was thought to be in three parts, three chapters. There's the one chapter in the countryside, called 'In the Light.' I knew this chapter would be light, it would be green and white, green for nature. I dyed all of the actors' hairs blonde and put them in white shirts. So I was trying to find a way to expose this young girl in a shot that would be really white and surrounded by green. So the film is going from light to darkness and rust. (...) So there was a conscious [decision] of going from light to dark, and from 35mm to 16mm. [Sept. 2000]
- [speaking in 1992] I can't think of anywhere less revolutionary than Paris, although we're very proud to say there was a revolution 200 years ago. It's a rich city, it's getting richer and richer, and they're pushing all the poorer people out to the suburbs. So the centre is becoming dead.
- [on Denis Lavant] He's the only one I know that I can ask anything from.
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