“Alex hasn't much time left: in three days his life will belong to the military. So the twenty-year-old Parisian devotes his final hours of civilian freedom to cruising the City of Lights' darker quarters. In the course of these nocturnal rounds, Alex encounters an impressive sampling of the characters and flamboyants who populate the seamier visage of Paris. It is there that he meets Mireille. With moody vignettes and offbeat humor, director Léos Carax has styled a tale of romance in which the title's ‘meet-cute' glibness is effectively offset by an exacting irony and cool distance. Refracted through a stunningly evocative black-and-white lens, Boy Meets Girl recalls the fervent urgency of youthful disillusionment and anxious romanticism of an earlier New Wave. But in temperament and cinematic rendering it is decidedly contemporary--the story and style of one born in 1960 who comes of age in the eighties. The first feature by 23-year-old Léos Carax wo