Philippe Garrel

The Plough (2023)

Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only a ...

The Salt of Tears (2020)

Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has ...

Lover for a Day (2017)

After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age. ...

In the Shadow of Women (2015)

Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both. ...

Jealousy (2013)

The professional and emotional cross-currents between two romantically entwined theater actors played by the director's son Louis and Anna Mouglalis. ...

A Burning Hot Summer (2011)

Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest. ...

Frontier of Dawn (2009)

A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. ...

Nocturna (2007)

An orphan boy named Tim is afraid of the dark. However, when the stars start going out in the sky, he finds himself exploring the world of the night, alongside his new friend, the Cat Shepherd. ...

Regular Lovers (2005)

1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with hi ...

Wild Innocence (2001)

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

The Wind of the Night (1999)

A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s. ...

The Phantom Heart (1996)

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

The Birth of Love (1993)

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young nor successful anymore. ...

I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991)

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer. ...

Emergency Kisses (1989)

When film director Mathieu casts a famous actress to portray a character based on his aspiring-actress wife, he creates a rift in his marriage. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's family members portray versions of themselves in this lyrical drama. ...

The Ministries of Art (1989)

Philippe Garrel's documentary on France's second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot. ...

Clara (1989)

"Clara, screenplay and dialogues of a Franco-Czechoslovak film, the co-director should have been the Czech filmmaker Kadar. Screenplay adaptated in 1989 by Philippe Garrel and students of the University of Paris X (Nanterre). The subject of the film - wh ...

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. 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 in-production, as the birth of a child. ...

Liberty at Night (1984)

In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman. ...

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984)

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city. ...

L'Enfant Secret (1982)

Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son. ...

The Blue of the Origins (1979)

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. ...

Journey to the Garden of the Dead (1978)

Love between Georges and Hypolyte has faded. George confides in Catherine that he is still obsessed with Hypolyte. He wishes that she was a virgin but since she is not, he wishes that she was dead. ...

The Crystal Cradle (1976)

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life. ...

An Angel Passes (1975)

Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel's father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker's staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May '68. ...

Les Hautes solitudes (1974)

Garrel convinced Jean Seberg, in the midst of a long struggle with mental illness, alcohol and drug, to "star" in this silent document of her daily life. Consisting mostly of meditative B&W close-ups of Seberg and her friends, as her torments and inner lif ...

Athanor (1972)

Athanor (Nico) is searching for fire. A flame is always at the foreground. Nico naked in tombs, looking at herself in circular mirrors, Nico in castles, keeper of the fire. Nico and Musky as medieval princesses. Athanor is a film about fire. ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

The Virgin's Bed (1969)

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must f ...

Concentration (1968)

La Concentration features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed. ...

Le Révélateur (1968)

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. ...

Actua 1 (1968)

A film considered almost lost even by Garrel, who recently found his negatives. Shot during the events of the May 68, it was made collectively; the film is a merge of Garrel's and his partners' points of view, all of them students and filmmakers that parti ...

Werther (1968)

Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical rereading of Goethe's work through a challenge to bourgeois society. ...

Cinétracts (1968)

A series of 43 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political viewpoint through the filmed depiction of real-life events, including ...

Marie for Memory (1968)

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

Anemone (1968)

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 Fathe ...

Young Cinema: Godard and His Emulators (1967)

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 o ...

Young People and Money (1967)

Philippe Garrel interviews young people who have become rich on their thoughts about money and capitalism. ...

Handa or Sophistication (1967)

Short Philippe Garrel portrait of a young woman, Handa, who loves that which is decadent, complicated, precious, cannot stand simplicity, and detests people who watch television. ...

Polnareff, Zouzou & Les Bonbons Magiques (1967)

TV short for the ORTF. ...

Ronnie Bird - Les Bon Mots (1967)

TV short for the series Bouton Rouge. ...

Bouton Rouge (1967)

Pop films by Garrel. ...

The Two of Us (1967)

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II. ...

The Lost Paths (1967)

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recordin ...

Right of Access (1965)

A 17 year old boy goes on a trip with his father and his father's girlfriend. ...

Children Out of Tune (1964)

A young couple skip school to spend time together in a mansion. ...

Jean Seberg, Philippe Garrel et Les Hautes solitudes (2014)

Jean Seberg, Philippe Garrel et Les Hautes solitudes is composed of excerpts from four of my films about Philippe Garrel which concern his silent masterpiece Les Hautes solitudes (1974) and its protagonist, the icon of the New Wave, Jean Seberg. ...

L’Art, c’est se perdre dans les châteaux du rêve (entretien avec Philippe Garrel III) (2012)

L’oeuvre d’art est utile car elle consolide notre liberté (entretien avec Philippe Garrel IV) (2012)

Jardins clandestins (2012)

Passions (entretien avec Philippe Garrel I) (2012)

Attention poésie (entretien avec Philippe Garrel II) (2012)

Philippe Garrel à Digne (Second voyage) (2010)

On the occasion of the 7th meetings of Digne, Pour un autre cinéma, organized by Pierre Queyrel and which presented a retrospective of Philippe Garrel's cinematographic work, this film is the sound recording of the discussion that the filmmaker made with ...

La deuxième femme (2008)

Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a p ...

Souvenirs souvenirs (2008)

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life. ...

Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice (2007)

30 years after their artistic revolution, members of the Zanzibar group meet in 1999 in Saint-Sulpice Square in Paris (France) in front of Gérard Courant's camera. ...

Philippe Garrel - Portrait d'un artiste (1999)

Cited as "the best filmmaker of his generation" by directors ranging from Akerman to Benoît Jacquot, Philippe Garrel remains an alluring, somewhat enigmatic figure; this rare look at his world and his art was made right after the completion of his great " ...

Golem, the Spirit of Exile (1992)

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s P ...

Emergency Kisses (1989)

When film director Mathieu casts a famous actress to portray a character based on his aspiring-actress wife, he creates a rift in his marriage. French filmmaker Philippe Garrel's family members portray versions of themselves in this lyrical drama. ...

Last Cry (1988)

This thriller looks at the defection of a terrorist and focuses on frequent violence and repetitive sex scenes with full frontal nudity. Henri (Hubert Lucot) belongs to a terrorist gang that orders him to kill the sister of one of their members. The member ...

nico/philippe garrel - Arsenal (1986)

clips from nicos live perfomances, working with garrel ...

She Spent So Many Hours Under the Sun Lamps (1985)

A young film director is making a movie with his friend Christa. 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 in-production, as the birth of a child. ...

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After (1984)

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city. ...

L'Enfant Secret (1982)

Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son. ...

Cinématon XX (1982)

Reel 20 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon N°193 Philippe Garrel (1982)

From Gérard Courant's Cinématon series. ...

Je meurs de soif, j'étouffe, je ne puis crier... (1979)

"This is the story of a search, that of a woman in pursuit of her own identity. This woman, Marie-Noëlle Kauffmann, ventures into the world of representation, meets four characters who, each in their own way, give her a key to cross the five sequences/ini ...

The Blue of the Origins (1979)

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. ...

La bande des quatre (1979)

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...

The Crystal Cradle (1976)

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life. ...

The Inner Scar (1972)

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images. ...

The Virgin's Bed (1969)

30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must f ...

Positano (1969)

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground co ...

Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge' (1968)

An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman. ...

Werther (1968)

Werther was one of the last feature films that Jean-Pierre Lajournade made for television. The Lajournade's version of Werther makes a critical rereading of Goethe's work through a challenge to bourgeois society. ...

Le meurtre du père (1968)

The Father's Murder tells the day in the life of a young man who wants to kill his father at all costs. ...

Anemone (1968)

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 Fathe ...

The Lost Paths (1967)

Series of three short 'Pop Films' directed between 1966 - 67 for French television by Philippe Garrel. Includes footage of The Living Theater in rehearsal, interviews with Julian Beck and Judith Malina, Donovan in concert and The Who in the studio recordin ...