Pola X

About Pola X

A writer leaves his upper-class life and journeys with a woman claiming to be his sister, and her two friends.

Pola X is a 1999 romance film directed by Leos Carax. Its themes are incest, romantic drama, upper class, and literary adaptation.

Guillaume Depardieu stars as Pierre, Yekaterina Golubeva as Isabelle, Catherine Deneuve as Marie, and Delphine Chuillot as Lucie. Released in May 1999, it runs 134 minutes.

The screenplay is by Jean-Pol Fargeau and Lauren Sedofsky. The film began as a novel.

Cruel Intentions, Beautiful Disaster, and Redeeming Love make useful companions to Pola X. TMDB voters put it at 5.6 out of 10 across 108 votes.