My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud

My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 16, 1993

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud

Production Companies

Archipel 33>35, France 2, La Sept, Laura Productions

Director

Gérard Mordillat

Description

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.