New on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD: THREE FILMS BY LEOS CARAX (1948-1991) - Criterion Collection

Three Films By Leos Carax Criterion Collection New On Bluray And 4k Ultra Hd

Product Description: Burning with stylistic freedom, the first three features by Leos Carax are cinema at its most ecstatically sensorial and deliriously romantic. Built around virtuosic, intensely physical performances from Denis Lavant as three different characters named Alex, these tales of outsiders, criminals, and doomed lovers living on the edge blaze with the whirlwind abandon of youth and the thrilling highs and torturous lows of all-consuming passion. Love letters to the city of Paris, with its streets transformed by cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier into expressive dreamscapes, these three films erupt in moments of anarchic euphoria that fuse sound and image to heart-stopping effect.

BOY MEETS GIRL

Made when he was just twenty-three years old, Leos Carax’s rapturous debut feature returns French cinema to the unfettered experimentation of the New Wave while updating it for the punk 1980s. In velvety black and white, Boy Meets Girl evokes a surreal nocturnal Paris populated by lost souls and wandering misfits, including Alex (Denis Lavant), a disaffected would-be filmmaker whose girlfriend has just left him for his best friend, and Mireille (Mireille Perrier), an aspiring actress nursing her own heartbreak. Drawn together by fate, they share a moment of intense, fleeting connection as bright-burning and ephemeral as youth itself.

MAUVAIS SANG

With his exhilarating second feature, Leos Carax infuses a neonoir scenario with a delirious strain of doomed romanticism for a tour de force of avant-pop invention. Amid the spread of STBO—a sexually transmitted disease acquired by having sex without emotion—a young ex-con (Denis Lavant) is recruited by a veteran criminal (Michel Piccoli) to steal the antidote, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous affair with his new associate’s lover (Juliette Binoche). Constructed with the kinetic verve of a musical, Mauvais sang explodes in moments of pure cinematic adrenaline, from a dizzying skydive to Lavant’s heart-pounding nighttime sprint set to David Bowie’s “Modern Love.”

THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE

With this feverish saga of amour fou, Leos Carax pushed his ambitions to glorious new heights. Michèle (Juliette Binoche), an artist who is losing her sight, meets Alex (Denis Lavant), a homeless street performer, while sleeping rough on Paris’s centuries-old Pont-Neuf, beginning an obsessive affair that soon collides with crushing reality. The result of an infamously lengthy, arduous production, The Lovers on the Bridge is a bracing plunge into life on the city’s turbulent margins—a visually arresting, musically intoxicating film that is never more dazzling than when the lovers water-ski madly across the Seine amid a shower of fireworks.

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Director: Leos Carax

Starring: Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, Mireille Perrier, Carroll Brooks, Michel Piccoli, Klaus Michael Grüber

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Crime

Runtime: 349 min

Rating: R

Language: French

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: September 29, 2026

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Blu-ray - Criterion Collection (Amazon)

4K Ultra HD - Criterion Collection (Amazon)

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Blu-ray

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A/1

4K Ultra HD

Codec: HEVC / H.265
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: None
4K Ultra HD: None

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Blu-ray: LPCM Mono
4K Ultra HD: LPCM Mono

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Blu-ray: English

4K Ultra HD: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New 4K digital restorations, with uncompressed monaural (Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais sang) and 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio (The Lovers on the Bridge) soundtracks
It’s Not Me (2024), a self-portrait film by director Leos Carax
New interviews with actor Denis Lavant and editor Nelly Quettier
New video essay on the cinematography of Jean-Yves Escoffier
Meet the Filmmakers: Leos Carax, a Criterion Channel original interview
Mr. X: A Vision of Leos Carax (2014), a documentary on Carax’s work
Le Pont-Neuf des amants (1991), a documentary on the making of the main set for The Lovers on the Bridge
Deleted scene, rushes, screen tests, behind-the-scenes footage, and trailers
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by author Amina Cain
New cover by Cecilia Carlstedt