One of my film enlightenment works

What exactly is the "New Baroque" style? I've never been able to figure it out, and it's probably just a rhetoric that lazy film critics use to sum up the aesthetic style of French cinema that flourished in the early 1980s. In fact, in the early 1980s, there were indeed three directors with unique styles in the French film industry, Carax, Luc Besson and Benex. All three made their blockbuster debuts in the early 1980s almost simultaneously. Karax's "Boy Meets Girl" continues the traditional black-and-white literary style of the New Wave. Luc Besson plays a futuristic black-and-white silent film, but Benex's work that mixes genre elements and literary temperament is the most impressive. I am satisfied. The combination of various elements in the film makes the audience stunned: opera, thriller, gangster film, French comedy, film noir, romance... I even suspect that this film has become a cult in one fell swoop. There are many Coen brothers, Quentin, and even Greener. The credit for directors such as Wei, because there are too many styles in the plot that they later made famous. With so many elements on the stage, it is not easy for Benex to tell a clear and logical story.

In fact, the most worth watching of the film is definitely the chase scene under the Paris subway, which not only opened my eyes, but also made me have endless fantasies about the city of Paris. Later, the Paris subway as an important scene in the narrative appeared in Luc Besson's "Subway" and Carax's "Lovers in the New Bridge", which seems to prove the similar aesthetic thinking of these three directors from the side.

In addition, the art design of this film is also worthy of attention: the garage bedroom of the male protagonist and the Vietnamese woman’s apartment are completely mixed with Eastern and Western elements, and the impact of classical and modern aesthetics is still not outdated even today. However, what impresses me the most is the soundtrack of the movie. I never tire of listening to Vladimir Cosma's original soundtrack. The ups and downs and changes of each melody, I can still remember clearly, and I seldom listen to operas, and I can't forget the soprano singing of the two pieces of Teana in the film. The score for the film directed by Benex is of a high standard, and the "Wild Rose of Paris" composed by Gabriel Yared is also unforgettable to me.

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