Philippe Garrel

A group of young Parisians turn to a bohemian existence after the events of May 1968. (Film Distribution)

French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested in her mind, her body, or merely her checkbook... (All Movie Guide)

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making). (imdb)

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word "révélateur"/developper describes the product to develop or "reveal" film negatives.) (imdb)

Using extended, extreme close-ups that visually isolate the characters from their environment and also serve to reinforce their intimate, yet emotionally dissociated encounters, the film illustrates the ambiguous and indeterminate structure of Paul and Markus' lives as they struggle to reconcile with an idle intellectualism that has replaced their once determined, youthful idealism. (Acquarello - Strictly Film School)

A movie director does a new film against heroin consumption, and the producers are heroin dealers.

Movie star Carole is living half a world away from her filmmaker husband when she meets Francois. (spout.com)

Philippe Garrel's symbolic retelling of the Christ myth set in modern times scores most as a phantasma rather than an explication of the rites of the myth. (imdb)

The films opens with Philippe Garrel walking a rocky path. His clothing and general appearance indicate a poet, a romantic. He encounters Nico sitting on a rock. In silence he takes her onto his path and into his journey. She asks "where are you taking me", receives no answer, but continues to walk with him. (imdb)

J'Entends Plus La Guitare draws on the filmmaker's long-term relationship with Nico, who passed away three years before this film was made, to tell the story of addictive love between Marianne, a pensive German woman and Gerard, her articulate, indecisive French lover. Gerard lets his emotional and chemical dependency shelter him from the responsibilities he cannot bear to accept, and Marianne uses hers as a weapon to draw him irrevocably closer to him. (www.silentmovietheatre.com)

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche's Anti-Christ. (imdb)

A film director creates familial strife when he won't cast his actress wife in a role that she inspired.

A survival, silent black & white film shot with a hand camera, a journey into Philippe Garrel's intimate family album featuring the two women who counted in his cinematographic life: Nico and Zouzou. (smironne.free.fr)

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life (imdb review)

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child. (imdb)

Philippe is a middle-aged painter, he lives with Annie and they have two kids. Just after they split up, Philippe meets Justine. He starts thinking about love, the relationship between former lovers... (imdb)

A couple living together in Paris, he a painter, she a film actress, befriend a couple of film extras who fall in love with each other. All four go to Rome where their relationships undergo profound changes as emotions shift and change. (tiff.net)

A young couple escape from school and home; they are happy in a lonely mansion somewhere; then, they are... asleep? (imdb)

A title with a comma in the middle for a film divided in two parts. A film in black and white with a dark side and a jovial side. The first part of the title evokes politics, as the story recalls the days of the Algerian War of Independence; the second part represents the mood that hovers over the eminently painful images. There isn't even a hint of daylight in the freedom of the title. It only lives metaphorically in the darkness and languor of the night. (Violeta Kovacsics)

"Anemone" is the portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a brief shot indicates us, it could have been called "Portrait of the artist as a young girl." though probably "young girl" is just a previous title, but the style and the presence of the Father leaves no doubt about who paints and who's hiding behind the young girl. (anonymous)

Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other. (imdb)

A theater actor is torn between the woman he lives with, and the woman he loves. But she cheats on him. (imdb)

Pierre is a documentary filmmaker whose wife, Manon, works with him on his projects. They seem to be happy until an intern at a film archive catches Pierre's gaze and they begin an affair... (VIFF.org)

A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age. (imdb)

May 68 events seen through various 16 & 35mm shots, anonymous images made by young protesters who were filming during the night. (imdb)

A provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship. (imdb)

Depicts the story of romantic and tragic destiny of a family of puppeteer artists. (en.wikipedia.org)

Influenced and inspired by Jean-Luc Godard, some young french directors (Jean Eustache, Francis Leroi, Jean-Michel Barjol, Romain Goupil, Luc Moullet) are talking about their problems in producing less expensive and more free films in the french industry of cinema of the 60’s. (mubi)