Pola X is a French film starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve, released in 1999. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, plus a Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth version of the script draft that was used to make the film. Pola X has been associated with the New French Extremity...
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Pola X is a French film starring Guillaume Depardieu, Yekaterina Golubeva and Catherine Deneuve, released in 1999. The film is loosely based on the Herman Melville novel Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. The film title is an acronym of the French title of the novel, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés, plus a Roman numeral "X" indicating the tenth version of the script draft that was used to make the film. Pola X has been associated with the New French Extremity.
The film was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
Pierre (Guillaume Depardieu) lives with his mother in a castle in Normandy near the edges of Seine. They are very beautiful, rich, carefree and they like themselves. Every morning, Pierre leaves on the inherited bike of his father to visit Lucie (Delphine Chuillot), his fiance'. One night, Marie (Catherine Deneuve) announces to Pierre that she arranged the date for his marriage to Lucie. Pierre leaves to announce the good news to his fiance'. On the way, in the forest, appears a...
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