72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Getting to Know Philippe Garrel
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Getting to Know Philippe Garrel
Getting to Know Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel
France
15 min.
Short film
Teenagers Pascal and Christiane run away, steal a car and land in a big house on the outskirts of town. Their games and conversations about the problems they have with their respective families alternate with interviews of people who know them as they endeavour to explain the youngsters? behaviour.
Philippe Garrel
France
15 min.
Short film
A boy living with his mother spends his weekends with his father and his current lover, a woman much younger than himself.
Philippe Garrel
France
80 min.
Two young couples soliloquize on their respective beds, without looking at one another, without listening to one another, reciting the words dispassionately, almost mechanically. Surreal situations and unrelated declarations ranging from the metaphysical to the sociological, from the philosophical quote to the reflection on loneliness, filter the characters? disillusionment and confusion.
Philippe Garrel
France
62 min.
A couple with their child make their way along roads, through forests and over fields, surrounded by disturbing shadows. Sometimes they walk reluctantly, leaning on one other, taking turns to look after the child and stopping anywhere for a rest. At others they flee desperately from an invisible threat.
Philippe Garrel
France
105 min.
The Virgin Mary gives birth to an adult Jesus unhappy with being on Earth right from the moment he sets foot on it who begs his Father in heaven to hear his pleas. Riding on donkey-back, Jesus reluctantly sets out on his way with a megaphone and the intention of trying to spread his message in a permanently hostile world that refuses to hear him.
Philippe Garrel
France
60 min.
A couple walks through the desert. She seems to blame him for the situation and shouts that she can?t breath. He ignores her. A boy looks at a rider unmoving in a circle of fire. A nude archer lands on a beach in his boat and explores the territory. There he meets a woman and a boy in a frozen landscape. Nico?s music impregnates the different segments of the film.
Philippe Garrel
France
80 min.
Immersion in the depths of the faces of three women while they gestually respond to stimuli always invisible to the viewer, whether interior, fired by reflection and emotions, or exterior, coming from somewhere off-screen. Sadness, pain, anger, grief, fear, resignation and melancholy appear in the eyes of the three actresses, all portrayed in minute detail by Garrel.
Philippe Garrel
France
80 min.
In an almost completely dark room, a woman lying on a bed dressed in black smokes a cigarette, reads, writes something, gets up and walks, plays a few notes on a keyboard. A man, also alone, stands against a marble column. An artist works on his paintings. Garrel looks at the loneliness of these unrelated characters.
Philippe Garrel
France
95 min.
Filmmaker Jean-Baptiste falls in love with Elie, an actress with a daughter whose father she hasn?t seen since the child was born. Constantly travelling, Elie doesn?t have much time to spend with her daughter. Jean-Baptiste agrees to meet the girl and starts to forge a relationship with her, but Elie?s absences and drug problems end in her admission to a clinic.
Philippe Garrel
France
80 min.
Paris, during the Algerian War. Jean and Mouche decide to end their long-standing relationship. They continue fighting separately for the independence cause while each one tries to adjust to the other?s painful absence. When Mouche is killed by the OAS, Jean starts going out with a young girl of Algerian origin.
Philippe Garrel
France
130 min.
Shattered after having been left by Christa, Jacques meets Marie and sets up house with her. The film also looks at its own gestation as Philippe Garrel repeatedly comes on screen to instruct the technicians, help the actors to construct their characters or reflect on their lives which, as is often the case with him, constitute the raw material of the film.
Philippe Garrel
France
83 min.
Mathieu is making a film based on his own life in which he plays the leading role. To the tremendous disgust of his actress wife Jeanne, he hires another woman, Minouchette, to play her part. Jealousy and the complications of combining their personal and professional lives cause the couple to separate.
Philippe Garrel
France
98 min.
Gérard and Marianne share a summer house with another couple of friends. Sentimental tensions lead both to question themselves on the nature of love. Gérard would like to have a child with Marianne, but she already has one from a former relationship and would prefer to wait. One day, Marianne leaves Gérard, and he starts going out with another woman. Some time later, Marianne returns and they strike up a new life together marked by drug addiction.
Philippe Garrel
France
94 min.
Paul lives with his pregnant wife, Fanchon, and his teenage son. Although he has a mistress, Ulrika, with whom he is so much in love that he would be perfectly willing to leave home, she is strongly marked by complicated former relationships and doesn?t share his feelings. Marcus, Paul?s friend, is also having a rough time. His girlfriend has just left for Rome with another man.
Philippe Garrel
France
87 min.
Following his separation from Anne, mother of his two children, Philippe, an artist, meets Justine, a girl younger than himself, in the street and they start going out together. Despite Philippe?s claims that Justine has been his salvation, she feels unable to compete with the nostalgia for his former life and becomes increasingly more jealous of his ex-wife and children.
Philippe Garrel
France
95 min.
Two men and a red Porsche. Paul, a young Fine Arts student, is having an affair with a married woman much older than himself. Serge is a weathered veteran architect widowed when his wife committed suicide who actively participated in the events of May ?68. The two men spend several car journeys talking and pinpointing the differences between their respective generations.
Philippe Garrel
France
117 min.
François, a young movie director, is having difficulty finding a producer to back his next project, Sauvage innocence, a film against drugs. Eventually finding a potential backer, the man asks François for a favour in exchange: to bring a suitcase full of heroin from Italy, the proceeds of which will pay to shoot the movie.
Philippe Garrel
France
178 min.
May ?68. A real battle breaks out between the police and groups of demonstrators in the streets of Paris amid smoke and the sound of sirens. Young François, a poet and consciencious objector, and his friends participate actively in the revolt, convinced that the revolution is possible. After the riots, their hopes of changing the system fade as they enter a period of disillusion buffered by opium.
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