Mauvais Sang

Mauvais Sang
Movie Poster ©AAA Classics 1986
Directed byLeos Carax
Written byLeos Carax
Produced byDenis Chateau
Alain Dahan
Philippe Diaz
StarringMichel Piccoli
Juliette Binoche
Denis Lavant
CinematographyJean-Yves Escoffier
Edited byNelly Quettier
Music byBenjamin Britten
David Bowie
Sergei Prokofiev
Distributed byAAA Classics
Release date
  • 26 November 1986 (1986-11-26)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Mauvais Sang (French pronunciation: [movɛ sɑ̃], Bad Blood), also known as The Night Is Young, is Leos Carax's second film. Released in 1986, the film played at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival before being nominated for three César Awards and winning the Prix Louis-Delluc. The film sold 504,803 tickets in France. The title refers to Arthur Rimbaud's poem in A Season in Hell.