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AMANTS REGULIERS
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Director: Philippe Garrel
Screenplay: Philippe Garrel, Arlette Langmann, Marc
Cholodenko
Cast:
François Dervieux: Louis Garrel
Lilie : Clotilde Hesme
Awards:
Golden Osella and Silver Lion Award, Venice Film Festival
(2005)
Best Film, Prix Louis Delluc (2005)
FIPRESCI Prize, European Film Awards (2006)
Most Promising Actor (Louis Garrel), César Awards
(2006)
Running time: 178’
Production: France 2005
Rating: Not Rated
Gauge: 35mm, DVD (B&W)
Genre: Drama
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
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"The
beauty of the film - the shimmering black-and-white tones
and the purity of the compositions, at once austere and
harmonious -suggests that the director sees this layover
less as a retreat into narcissism than as a necessary
journey into the self. As 1968 gave way to 1969, it was
still uncertain whether they had been permanently defeated
or were just stoking the flames within - too early to
gauge whether idealism would survive such a crushing defeat."
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times. |
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Regular
Lovers takes place in 1968, a key year in French cultural
and social history. François, a young idealist man
who wants to change society, joins the students’ revolt
movement. When order and authority return to the city and
François understands that the fight is over, he hides
away in a luxurious mansion where a young community leads
a bohemian life, made up of art and inactivity. One night,
he meets Lilie and a poetic, fragile relationship begins between
the two of them. Regular Lovers is not a sensational historical
fresco of the events that took places in 1968. Rather, the
director, who was twenty at the time, gives a unique perspective
of what he remembers from this period. His approach focuses
on the notion of time, and it could be summed up by the expression
“to give time to time”. As the camera rolls, the
director lets the actors reveal their characters’ secrets.
The director also establishes the link between past and present
by choosing his own son, Louis, for the role of the main character.
The scene between the young man and his grandfather is one
of the most moving moments of the film: a magical sense of
intimacy and humor that only Garrel’s cinema can offer.
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