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Philippe Garrel
Director 78 years old

Philippe Garrel

Boulogne Billancourt, France

Philippe Garrel (French: [gaʁɛl]; born 6 April 1948; Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, and producer, associated with the French New Wave movement. Garrel and actress Brigitte Sy are the parents of actors Louis Garrel and... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

20 titles
Le sel des larmes

Le sel des larmes

Philippe Garrel 2020 1h 40m

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 known since childhood.

L'amant d'un jour

L'amant d'un jour

Philippe Garrel 2017 1h 16m

The story of a father, his 23-year-old daughter who goes back home one day because she has just been dumped, and his new girlfriend, who is also 23 and lives with him.

L'ombre des femmes

L'ombre des femmes

Philippe Garrel 2015 1h 13m 5.0

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.

La Jalousie

La Jalousie

Philippe Garrel 2013 1h 17m

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

Un été brûlant

Un été brûlant

Philippe Garrel 2011 1h 35m

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

La frontière de l'aube

La frontière de l'aube

Philippe Garrel 2008 1h 46m 6.5

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

Les amants réguliers

Les amants réguliers

Philippe Garrel 2005 3h 3m 10.0

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 his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay.

Sauvage innocence

Sauvage innocence

Philippe Garrel 2001 2h 3m

François Mauge, a movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.

Le vent de la nuit

Le vent de la nuit

Philippe Garrel 1999 1h 35m 5.0

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.

La naissance de l'amour

La naissance de l'amour

Philippe Garrel 1993 1h 34m 9.0

The unhappy love lives of Paul and Marcus, two artists and friends who are neither particularly young or successful anymore.

J'entends plus la guitare

J'entends plus la guitare

Philippe Garrel 1991 1h 38m 9.0

Gerard aime Marianne et cet amour est le sens de sa vie. Un jour, Marianne part avec un autre homme. Gerard rencontre Linda, Aline puis Adrienne mais Marianne est toujours la.

Les baisers de secours

Les baisers de secours

Philippe Garrel 1989 1h 23m

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights...

Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights...

Philippe Garrel 1985 2h 10m

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.

Liberté, la nuit

Liberté, la nuit

Philippe Garrel 1983 1h 22m

A man caught in the midst of the events of Algeria is experiencing a new but fleeting happiness with a young Algerian.

L'enfant secret

L'enfant secret

Philippe Garrel 1982 1h 35m

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.

Les hautes solitudes

Les hautes solitudes

Philippe Garrel 1974 1h 23m

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche's Anti-Christ.

La cicatrice intérieure

La cicatrice intérieure

Philippe Garrel 1972 1h 9.0

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Marie pour mémoire

Marie pour mémoire

Philippe Garrel 1968 1h 14m

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

Le révélateur

Le révélateur

Philippe Garrel 1968 1h 7m 9.0

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

La concentration

La concentration

Philippe Garrel 1968 1h 34m

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.

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