Mauvais Sang
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 8:00 PM PDT · The Frida Cinema · Santa Ana, CA
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Love that burns fast but lasts forever. Our Heist Hallucinations pick for November is Leos Carax’s 1986 exquisitely stylized sophomore feature, Mauvais Sang! Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner’s son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It’s spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment. A dazzling genre-mash of neo-noir, science fiction, crime, and doomed romance that’s anchored by unforgettable performances from Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, and Michel Piccoli, Mauvais Sang announced Carax as one of the most audacious voices of the French cinema of the 1980s.
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