Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner's son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It's spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
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Juliette Binoche
Anna
Denis Lavant
Alex
Michel Piccoli
Marc
Hans Meyer
Hans
Julie Delpy
Lise
Carroll Brooks
The American
Hugo Pratt
Boris
Mireille Perrier
Young Mother
Serge Reggiani
Charlie
Jérôme Zucca
Thomas
Director
Leos Carax
Tagline
"Love that burns fast but lasts forever."
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Production
Soprofilms, Les Films Plain Chant, FR3 Films Production
Walruse
January 7, 2018
Mauvais Sang is at core a crime movie, but the crime serves only as a skeleton. The flesh is the passion of unrequited love and the cerebral processing of the same. Lise loves Alex who loves Anna that loves Mark. Mark, on the other hand, is afraid of The American Woman who was once lovers with Alex father and who will kill him unless he pays the debts of himself and his companions within two weeks...
griggs79
March 26, 2025
_Mauvais Sang_ made me feel cooler just for watching it—like I’d chain-smoked a Gauloises in a neon-lit alley while reciting poetry to nobody in particular. It’s moody, stylish, and occasionally baffling, but there’s real heart pulsing beneath all that noir-drenched angst. I loved Juliette Binoche smouldering on screen, and Julie Delpy has that effortlessly aloof charm that just works. And Dennis ...
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