Philippe Garrel
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 →
Le sel des larmes
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
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
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
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
Paul reflects on the summer he met Angèle and Frédéric as he watches his friend being laid to rest.
La frontière de l'aube
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.
Les amants réguliers
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
François Mauge, a movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
Le vent de la nuit
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche's Anti-Christ.
La cicatrice intérieure
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
Marie pour mémoire
Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.
Le révélateur
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 features an androgynous young man (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and woman (Zouzou), dressed only in their underwear, locked in a room with a bed.