Mauvais Sang [SEP] director
Mauvais Sang
Mauvais Sang (, "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 3 César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc. The film had 504,803 admissions in France. The title refers to the eponymous poem by Arthur Rimbaud in "A Season in Hell".
Plot.
In Paris of the not-too-distant future, a mysterious
, but moved many times before finally settling in Ripon, California. In his youth Lee had run away from home after growing pressure from his father to leave school and work full-time. Working as a servant Lee was introduced to American music by his employers who had also encouraged him to go to school. A servant in the Oakland home of Zeno Mauvais, a local music store owner, Lee was influenced by his wife Mae S. Mauvais who worked in the Chinese Presbyterian Mission. Lee joined the church, sang in