Not only does our story also split, but it folds back on itself, for Carax is himself in search of a son, and...but enough.

ECONOMIST: Fiction in translation: Come the Catalan | The

This three-part film, composed of half-hour segments set in the Japanese metropolis, directed by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho, is an unfortunate triumph of intelligence over heart.

NEWYORKER: Tokyo!

At the beginning of his new film, the director Leos Carax, as himself, wakes up in bed and steps through a magic portal and onto the balcony of a movie theatre.

NEWYORKER: Holy Motors

The sullen French actor and longtime Carax collaborator Denis Lavant, trained as an acrobat, enters a stretch limo, only to emerge as an elderly and infirm woman begging along the Seine.

NEWYORKER: Holy Motors

The meteoric first film by the French director Leos Carax, from 1984, hurls Alex (Denis Lavant), an aspiring filmmaker his own age, out of one desperately romantic relationship and into another, through a permanently nocturnal Parisian atmosphere of poetic coincidences and crazy risks.

NEWYORKER: Boy Meets Girl