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Pola X( 1999)

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An erotically charged descent into madness.

Overview

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Guillaume Depardieu

      Pierre

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      Yekaterina Golubeva

      Isabelle

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      Catherine Deneuve

      Marie

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      Delphine Chuillot

      Lucie

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      Laurent Lucas

      Thibault

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      Patachou

      Marguerite

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      Petruta Catana

      Razerka

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      Mihaella Silaghi

      La Petite

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      Šarūnas Bartas

      Le Chef

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      Samuel Dupuy

      Fred

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      Mathias Mlekuz

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      Dine Souli

      Chauffeur de Taxi

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      Miguel Yeco

      Augusto

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      Khireddine Medjoubi

      FIls du Patron du Café

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      Mark Zak

      L'Ami Roumain

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      Anne Richter

      Femme du Chef

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      Myriam Defremont

      Policier

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      Michel B. Dupérial

      Policier

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      Pascal Parmentier

      Policier

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      Jean-Jacques Colin

      Policier

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      Bill Callahan

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      Mario Gremlich

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      Bobo

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      Kerstin Fischer

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      Tom Liwa

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      Thomas Klein

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      Peter Sarach

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      Fritz Wittek

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      Till Lindemann

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      Steve Donnelly

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      Christoph Schneider

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      Stefan Claudius

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      Stuart Grimshaw

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      Roland Hoppner

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      Markus Kirschbaum

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      Axel Neumann

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      Martin Siry

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      Julia Zanke

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      Kersten Ginsberg

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    A review by CRCulver

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    Written by CRCulver on Tue May 29 2018
    When Leos Carax's film POLA X premiered in 1999, it was seen then as part of the New French Extremity movement, with critics and audiences picking up on its unsimulated sex scene. Yet that forms only a brief few minutes of quite ample film. Two decades on, audiences of today ought to look past the sensation and appreciate the film for what it really has to offer: a convincing contemporary take on Hermann Meville's psychological novel PIERRE, and the way Carax interweaves Melville's structure of 19th-century wealthy elites with harrowing references to contemporary France, Bosnia and the plight o...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

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    Keywords

    • based on novel or book
    • incest
    • new french extremism