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Mauvais Sang
Movie Poster ©AAA Classics 1986
Directed by	Leos Carax
Written by	Leos Carax
Produced by	Denis Chateau Alain Dahan Philippe Diaz
Starring	Michel Piccoli Juliette Binoche Denis Lavant
Cinematography	Jean-Yves Escoffier
Edited by	Nelly Quettier
Music by	Benjamin Britten David Bowie Sergei Prokofiev
Distributed by	AAA Classics
Release date	26 November 1986 (1986-11-26)
Running time	116 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Mauvais Sang (French pronunciation: [movɛ sɑ̃], Bad Blood), also known as The Night Is Young, is Leos Carax's second film. Released in 1986, the film played at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival before being nominated for three César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc. The film sold 504,803 tickets in France. The title refers to Arthur Rimbaud's poem in A Season in Hell.

In the film, a sexually transmitted disease called STBO is sweeping the country; it spreads by sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are young people who have sex out of curiosity rather than commitment. A woman hires two men to steal the serum, which has been locked away in a pharmaceutical company's offices.

Plot

In the Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious disease, STBO, is killing people who have sex without emotional involvement. A serum has been developed, but it is locked away out of the reach of those who need it. An American woman blackmails two aging crooks, Marc and Hans, into stealing it. Marc recruits Alex, a rebellious teenager whose father worked for him before his death. Alex has a girlfriend, Lise, but falls for Marc's lover, Anna.

Cast

• Michel Piccoli as Marc
• Juliette Binoche as Anna
• Denis Lavant as Alex
• Hans Meyer as Hans
• Julie Delpy as Lise
• Carroll Brooks as The American woman
• Hugo Pratt as Boris
• Mireille Perrier as The young mother
• Serge Reggiani as Charlie
• Jérôme Zucca as Thomas

Production

Julie Delpy has said she came out of filming this movie traumatized: "It was a very difficult shoot. I had a motorcycle accident. In order to make the insurance work, I wasn't taken to the doctor right away. As a result, my leg became gangrenous—one more day and it was amputation. Moreover Leos Carax was not easy. The actress was not easy either."

Christian Faure was the assistant director of the movie.

The soundtrack includes music by Sergei Prokofiev, Benjamin Britten, and David Bowie.

Accolades

References

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7. ^ "AWARDS & FESTIVALS MAUVAIS SANG". mubi.com. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
8. "Competition 1987". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on 8 May 2005. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
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