France | 2006 | b&w | 2006 | dir. Philippe Garrel, with Louis Garrel, Clotilde Dehesme
Philippe Garrel began as an experimental filmmaker in his teen years, and hurled himself body and soul into the movement of May ’68. All of his films refer back implicitly or explicitly to this flashpoint, but here he directly represents the event — and then its melancholic aftermath, idealism lost in opium, isolation and disillusionment. Philippe Garrel regards May ’68 objectively as a failure but his own loosely autobiographical film is a testament to its enduring aesthetic of poetic resistance.
