Mauvais Sang
| 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 |
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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.