French director Philippe Garrel has always only needed the barest means to make movie magic: a beautiful, tragic face, a sad wall to put behind it, a mournful, pensive walk alone on the street. His latest film premiered last year in Cannes at the Directors’ Fortnight; having first shown his work there in 1969 with Le lit de la vierge, Garrel once again proves he is nearly alone in continuing the French New Wave’s revolution of creating celluloid myths from mere bedrooms and cafes. This new film, Lover for a Day is one of his most simple, a lithe, splendid picture dazzling in its clarity, direct emotional resonance and condensed storytelling. The set-up, co-written with Garrel’s partner Caroline Deruas-Garrel and his usual writer Arlette Langmann along with Jean-Claude Carrière, is inspired: A young woman, Jeanne breaks up with her boyfriend and must stay at the flat of his father,...
- 4/24/2018
- MUBI
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In Paris 1968, a loose cohort of young artists, emboldened by the political turmoil of the era and equipped with a windfall of funds from arts patron Sylvina Boissonnas, united to produce a run of films independent of any prior tradition, including that of the preceding generation of rebels known as the French New Wave. Later dubbed the Zanzibar group, these fresh-faced filmmakers, which included future master Philippe Garrel and prolific technician Jackie Raynal, as well as such relative unknowns as Etienne O’Leary, Serge Bard and Patrick Deval, worked in a...
In Paris 1968, a loose cohort of young artists, emboldened by the political turmoil of the era and equipped with a windfall of funds from arts patron Sylvina Boissonnas, united to produce a run of films independent of any prior tradition, including that of the preceding generation of rebels known as the French New Wave. Later dubbed the Zanzibar group, these fresh-faced filmmakers, which included future master Philippe Garrel and prolific technician Jackie Raynal, as well as such relative unknowns as Etienne O’Leary, Serge Bard and Patrick Deval, worked in a...
- 7/30/2017
- by Jordan Cronk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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