RomanceCrimeDramaScience Fiction

Mauvais Sang

- Love that burns fast but lasts forever.

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.

Release Date : 1986-11-26

Language :French

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : SoprofilmsUnité TroisLimbo Film AGLes Films Plain ChantFR3 Films ProductionGeorges Reinhart ProductionsSofimaSogedisCNCThéo Films

Production Country : SwitzerlandFrance

Alternative Titles : Bad Blood

Cast

Character Name : Anna

Original Name : Juliette Binoche

Gender : Female

Character Name : Alex

Original Name : Denis Lavant

Gender : Male

Character Name : Marc

Original Name : Michel Piccoli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hans

Original Name : Hans Meyer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lise

Original Name : Julie Delpy

Gender : Female

Character Name : The American

Original Name : Carroll Brooks

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boris

Original Name : Hugo Pratt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young Mother

Original Name : Mireille Perrier

Gender : Female

Character Name : Charlie

Original Name : Serge Reggiani

Gender : Male

Character Name : Thomas

Original Name : Jérôme Zucca

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Paul Handford

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Charles Schmitt

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : François Négret

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Philippe Fretun

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Thomas Peckre

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Ralph Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Eric Vasberg

Gender : Male

Character Name : Neighborhood Voyeur (uncredited)

Original Name : Leos Carax

Gender : Male

Reviews

Walruse

@EmkEyen

2021-06-23

Mauvais Sang is at core a crime movie, but the crime serves only as a skeleton. The flesh is the passion of unrequited love and the cerebral processing of the same. Lise loves Alex who loves Anna that loves Mark. Mark, on the other hand, is afraid of The American Woman who was once lovers with Alex father and who will kill him unless he pays the debts of himself and his companions within two weeks. In the nerve system is the libido at hold as a strange virus affects untruthful lovers, which is also the device that cuts through the entire body of the movie. Finally on the skin is an abnormal heat wave caused by the vicinity of Haley's Comet. It is a full bodied movie, and as French as it is, the performance uses full body language as well. While there are a few exaggerated moments that may not appeal to all audiences, there are others that make well up for them.

griggs79

@griggs79

2025-03-26

_Mauvais Sang_ made me feel cooler just for watching it—like I’d chain-smoked a Gauloises in a neon-lit alley while reciting poetry to nobody in particular. It’s moody, stylish, and occasionally baffling, but there’s real heart pulsing beneath all that noir-drenched angst. I loved Juliette Binoche smouldering on screen, and Julie Delpy has that effortlessly aloof charm that just works. And Dennis Lavant—my god, the man dances. That scene? Electric. I honestly think it should be a law: Lavant must dance in every film. Not just the ones he’s in—every film. The plot wobbles here and there, but the vibes? Impeccable.