Philippe Garrel

[Peter_Larkin]

Here is the article https://cilleinmcevoy.wordpress.com/201 ... pe-garrel/

[Ovader]

Thanks for the link and it has been added on the first page.

[Ovader]

Philippe Garrel rétrospective from September 18 to October 20, 2019 at La Cinémathèque française. Cinéma Philippe Garrel Bande annonce Cinematheque francaise

[feckless boy]

Le Berceau de cristal was screened here in Stockholm this passed weekend. The nearly immaculate print, advertised as Garrels' own, was preceded by the most recent Cinémathèque Francaise logo - has this film received restoration recently? (Fighting against a swedish spell-check on an old iPad).

[Ovader]

Apparently there is a blu-ray edition from Mexico of Amante por un día/Lover for a Day/L'Amant d'un jour. As far as I know this would be the fourth Garrel film on blu after the three blu-rays of his earlier films via Re:Voir.

[Ovader]

Co-Production company Close Up Films' webpage in French for Le Sel des larmes.

[Ovader]

Le Sel des larmes/The Salt of Tears has a release date of April 8, 2020 in France.

[Ovader]

Trailer for LE SEL DES LARMES.

[barryconvex]

Can anyone recommend a good place to start here? The extent of my Garrel knowledge begins and ends with the still used for the cover of Desertshore.

[spectre]

So much! L'enfant secret is one of his classic mid-career works; I think you'll get a good sense of whether you like his style from that (some of his more recent films have slightly more conventional narrative structures, but the poetic imagery + music + melancholic romance is all there!) My absolute favourite Garrel film is Regular Lovers, but that's a bit of an outlier in its historical focus – still, if you want to see a stone-cold masterpiece, that's it. Otherwise, I really liked Jealousy and Lover for a Day and, from his earlier, more experimental period, Le révélateur and La cicatrice intérieure are both a lot of fun (but each very, very different in style from his later work and from one another).

[barryconvex]

Thank you, fur. Regular Lovers has an Artificial Eye dvd (and I'll start there) but other than Jealousy, I'm not seeing anything else you mentioned. Some of his other 70s works are available though.

[spectre]

Re:voir has quite a few early films with English subtitles, including L'enfant secret and La cicatrice intérieure:
https://re-voir.com/shop/en/33-philippe-garrel

I just had a look for Lover for a Day, and sadly it looks like it's only out in a Spanish Blu-ray without English subtitles:
https://cameo.es/amante-por-un-dia.html

But it does appear to be available for streaming here: https://loverforaday.mubi.com/

[Ovader]

Mon dieu!

According to The Salt of Tears, France’s own national moral dilemma is far simpler: getting your dick wet.

Negative review of ‘The Salt of Tears’ from Berlinale 2020.

[dda1996a]

It's definitely a strange one. It starts magnificently, with an almost silent romance between two different people, each from a different heritage and social background (Luc is middle class, white and classically "French", while Djemila is working class, of color and from an immigrant family). It works beautifully as narratively the romance is all sparks, like a Linklater or Rohmer crossed with the quietude of Edward Yang or Tsai, with the social inquisitions firmly in the background. Sadly, the romance soon returns to classical late Garrel, with obvious cheating and a lot of anger and dissapointments. It's still interesting, but it turns the film to a study of male toxicity that's nothing you for Garrel.
Of course it is filled with only beautiful people of both sexes, so there's that. But if only it could have sustained that aching, touching first love in the beginning, we might have been talking about film of the year.

[kubelkind]

Negative review of ‘The Salt of Tears’ from Berlinale 2020.

Lost it at "Claire Denis, whose work is riddled with problematic images of racial fetishism". Oh dear...

[Peter_Larkin]

May I suggest that Cillèin McEvoy's great article on Regular Lovers be added to the resources list https://cilleinmcevoy.wordpress.com/202 ... pe-garrel/

[Peter_Larkin]

Does anyone have a copy of the DVD booklet for Zeitgeist's release of Regular Lovers featuring an essay by Kent Jones?

[Ovader]

Philippe Garrel by Michael Leonard is a recent book from Manchester University Press as part of their French Film Directors Series.

[Ovader]

NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim talks of SALT OF TEARS and states Distrib Films US (link has tab to download Poster, Stills and an International Presskit) will have the film available for viewing next year. He also mentions Garrel is in the midst of writing his next film project.

[domino harvey]

Is it any good? I was kinda thinking of indulging, though I'll prob just wait for a cheap AmazonPrime rental from Distrib if that's the case

[Ovader]

I haven't seen the film as I was hoping to view it via FLC Virtual Cinema at Lincoln Center but I am in Canada and that privilege is only for those living in the U.S. or U.S. territories with possible exceptions whatever they may be.

[barbarella satyricon]

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[Ovader]

Scheduled for a 2022 release Garrel's new film is titled La Lune crevée and is in pre-production. Louis Garrel, Esther Garrel, Léna Garrel, Aurélien Recoing, Francine Bergé and Damien Mongin are listed in the cast. Writing credits are for Jean-Claude Carrière, Caroline Deruas-Garrel, Philippe Garrel, and Arlette Langmann. I read the story deals with three siblings of puppeteers with one member dealing with his or her romantic travails.

EDIT: To be released on March 8, 2023. According to IMDb the film is about three siblings, a father and a grandmother who run a travelling puppet show. When the father dies during a performance, the remaining family members try to keep his legacy alive.

[Ovader]

The Plough will be screened at Berlinale 2023. More details of the film available at the Wild Bunch website.

[Bebert]

Huge news! Re:voir's 2024 catalog lists a bunch of Garrel films coming soon to blu-ray including:

• Les Amants réguliers
• La Concentration
• Athanor
• Un ange passe
• Le Berceau de cristal
• Le Bleu des origines
• Voyage au jardin des morts
• Le Révélateur
• Le Lit de la Vierge
• Rue Fontaine