Pola X

Pola X
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLeos Carax
Screenplay byLeos Carax
Jean-Pol Fargeau
Based onPierre: or, The Ambiguities
by Herman Melville
Produced byBruno Pésery
StarringGuillaume Depardieu
Yekaterina Golubeva
Catherine Deneuve
CinematographyEric Gautier
Edited byNelly Quettier
Music byScott Walker
Production
companies
Distributed byAMLF (France)
Filmcoopi (Switzerland)[1]
Arthaus Filmverleih (Germany)[1]
Eurospace (Japan)[1]
Release dates
  • 13 May 1999 (1999-05-13) (Cannes)
  • 7 October 1999 (1999-10-07) (Switzerland)
  • 9 December 1999 (1999-12-09) (Germany)
  • 19 September 2001 (2001-09-19) (France)
Running time
134 minutes[2]
CountriesFrance
Switzerland
Germany
Japan
LanguageFrench
Budget$11 million
Box office$791,919[3]

Pola X is a 1999 French drama film directed by Leos Carax and starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. It revolves around a young novelist who is confronted by a woman who claims to be his lost sister, and the two begin a romantic relationship. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, plus the Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth draft version of the script that was used to make the film.

The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[4] Pola X has been associated by some with the New French Extremity.

  1. ^ a b c "Pola X (1999)". Unifrance. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
  2. ^ "POLA X (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 10 March 2000. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
  3. ^ "Pola X (1999)- JPBox-Office". jpbox-office.com. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Pola X". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 7 October 2009.