Pola X (1999) on Netflix
Pierre, a young novelist engaged to Lucie, lives with his mother in a Normandy chateau. A vagrant woman, Isabelle, says she is his half-sister, and he leaves everything for her.
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- IMDb5.7/105,751 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes76%
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Plot summary
In Normandy, Pierre publishes under a pseudonym and his fame is growing. He lives in a chateau with his widowed mother and is engaged to Lucie, a childhood friend whom he visits at her parents' chateau. In a bar his cousin Thibault, a stockbroker, offers him a place to stay in Paris and asks why a young vagrant woman is following him; when Pierre looks, she runs off. Driving through the forest, he sees her again. She speaks with a heavy foreign accent and says she is his half-sister, Isabelle, and tells him about the hardships of her life. Razerka, a Romanian woman, and a small girl travel with her. Pierre leaves his mother, his home and Lucie to take Isabelle to Paris.
Cast
- Petruta Catanaas Razerka
- Mihaella Silaghias La Petite
- Dine Soulias Chauffeur de Taxi
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- Miguel Yecoas Augusto
- Khireddine Medjoubias FIls du Patron du Café
- Anne Richteras Femme du Chef
- Myriam Defremontas Policier
- Michel B. Dupérialas Policier
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pola X (1999)
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- The title Pola X is taken from the French title of Herman Melville's novel, Pierre ou les ambiguïtés: the letters form an acronym, and the X marks the tenth draft of the script that was used to make the film.
- For the three-episode television version, producer Bruno Pesery raised extra budget during the original shoot so the film could exceed its contractually agreed 140-minute running time; Leos Carax edited it in the spirit of the serials of his childhood, especially Vidocq.
- The three-episode TV cut of Pola X has been screened only rarely since 2001 and has never had an official physical or streaming release; in late 2021 a digitised VHS recording of it was leaked online illegally by an unknown source, and then translated into English for the first time.
