Philippe Garrel à Digne (Premier voyage)

Philippe Garrel à Digne (Premier voyage)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 29, 2010

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Philippe Garrel à Digne (Premier voyage)

Production Companies

Les Amis de Cinématon, Les Archives de l’Art Cinématonique, La Fondation Gérard Courant

Director

Gérard Courant

Description

Courant registered Garrel’s dialogues in order to produce his first urgent film, the first of his essays inquiring the state of current cinema. As a synthesis for the 20th century, Garrel invoked his relationship with Freud, Henri Langlois, Orson Welles, Marx, The Rolling Stones, Godard, Warhol, Picasso and Bergman and draw a territory in that different kind of cinema also inhabited by Courant’s art. Four years later –as a sequel, and a first example of Courant’s series– there was another meeting with Garrel, where again the filmmaker adds names related to his sensitivity, such as Murnau, Von Stroheim, the Lumière brothers, Abel Gance, Polanski, Rivette; the writers André Breton and Gabriele d’Annunzio; and the actresses Anna Karina, Nico, Zouzou and Maria Schneider –three stars of his films. (Diego Trerotola)