A: He died in 2008 from pneumonia after a motorcycle accident. His performance in Pola X is considered his best.
Starring as Pierre, the idealistic writer. He won the Best Actor award at the 1999 Gijón International Film Festival for this performance. Yekaterina Golubeva
. The title is an acronym for the French title of the novel, Pierre ou les Ambiguïtés
(Guillaume Depardieu), a successful young writer living a life of luxury in Normandy with his mother, (Catherine Deneuve), and his beautiful fiancée,
Carax spent nearly a decade trying to make Pola X . After the international success of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), he became notorious for slow, expensive shoots. For Pola X , he wanted to abandon the romanticism of his earlier work for brutalist realism.
The film premiered at the in the Directors’ Fortnight section. It was booed by some critics, walked out on by distributors, and called “unwatchable” by Variety . However, a small contingent of defenders praised its fearless ambition.