#1326a: CARAX, Leos: Boy Meets Girl (1984)

CARAX, Leos (France)
Boy Meets Girl [1984]
Spine #1326a
4K


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.

104 minutes
5.1 Surround
Black and White
in French
1:66:1
Criterion Release 2026

Director/Writer

Leos Carax was 24 when he wrote and directed Boy Meets Girl.

The Film



The Extras

The Booklet

Commentary

Video tribute

Documentary 1

Documentary 2

Documentary 3

Controversial altered ending

Theatrical trailer


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