i have never hear of leos carax until his merde segment in last year tokyo and and his be easily the stand out the film three story . it wasn not my favorite of the short and but it be the most unique and and the most iconic . the lover on the bridge be the first of his full length feature i have see and a virtuoso romantic film that use image and music to communicate an exuberant young love that overflow into the poetic . though he classify a a neo nouvelle vogue and his film owe as much to silent cinema a the 60 experimental narrative . his movie be close to jean vigo in latlante and jean cocteau and and guy maddin and than godard and truffaut . in boy meet girl carax 1984 debut he use black and white and the heavy reliance on visual representation to display emotional state . he combine the exaggerated world of maddin and but base in a reality that never seem quite stable like cocteau and but by virtue of it expression it become more accessible and emotional and and engage like vigo movie . the story of boy meet girl be simple and and similar to carax two follow film which comprise this young lover trilogy . a boy name alex play by denis lavant ( who play a character name alex in carax next two movie ) and have just be dump by his girlfriend who have fall in love with his best friend . in the first scene he nearly kill his friend on a boardwalk but stop short of murder . he walk around reminded of her by sound of his neighbor have sex and and daydream of his girlfriend and best friend get intimate . he steal record for her and leave them at his friend apartment and but avoids contact either of them directly . he wander around and find his way to a party and where he meet a suicidal young woman and and the film become part breathless and part limelight . later he be advise by an old man with sign language to speak up for yourself . young people today it like they forget how to talk . the old man give an anecdote about work in the day of silent film and and how an actor timid off stage become a confident lion when in front of the camera . here where the movie tip it hand and but the overt reference to silent film be a crucial scene and since it overlap the style of the film ( silent and expressionist ) and with the content ( a lovelorn young man try to work up the courage to say and do the thing he really want to ) . though alex be pensive at first and a torrent of romantic word tumble out of him by the end and he be the shy actor who become a lion thanks to the film magnification of his inward feeling which aren not easy to nail down from moment to moment and aside from a desire to fall in love . there be a scene in the film where alex retreat from the party into a room where the guest have stash their child and baby and all cry in a chorus that fill that room and until he turn on a tape of a child show make them fall silent . unexpectedly due a glitch the tv end up play a secret bathroom camera which reveal the hostess sob to herself into her wig about someone she miss . even a carax be self reflexive and self deprecating of the very kind of angst ridden come of age tale he be try to tell ( the room full of whine infant ) and he mature enough to see through the initial irony to the lovelorn in everything the film cross . even the rich old and bell of the ball have a brother she miss . in another scene an ex astronaut stare at the moon he once walk on in his youth while sip a cocktail in silence . though indebted to film before talkie and carax be a master of music and know when to pipe in the dead kennedy holiday in cambodia and or an early david bowie song and the sound of a man play piano and or of a girl softly hum . in boy meet girl and when someone get their heart broken we see blood pour from their shirt and when a couple kiss on the sidewalk they spin 360 degree a if attach to a carousel and when alex enters a party an feel out of place and it because the most interesting people in the world really be in attendance while like the famous author who can not speak because of a bullet lodge in his brain and or the miss universe of 1950 stand just across from the astronaut . this film be the miss link between jean piere jenuet and michel gondry and and wes anderson and whose stylistic flourish and quirky tale of whimsy and all have a parallel with different visuals and musical and and emotional cue in these carax movie . every line of dialog and every piece of music and every effect and edit in this movie resonate with me on some emotional level and some i lack word to articulate . there be many tale of a boy meet a girl and but rather than just explore the banal detail of any particular event this movie capture the ecstatic truth of adolescent passion and disappointment . the other movie you want to watch can wait . see this first . if i be to make film and i would want them to be like this and in fact i wish all film be like this and where the ephemeral becomes large than life and and life itself become a dream .