They even closed part of the town's famous medina in order to use it for party grounds and filled the streets with locals who acted as extras, providing a more romantic atmosphere.

FORBES: Life

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.

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