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Les enfants désaccordés: Directed by Philippe Garrel. With Christiane Pérez, Pascal Roy, Maurice Garrel, Marcel Domerc. A young couple escape from school and home; they are happy in a lonely mansion somewhere; then, they are... asleep?!
- (88)
- Short
- Philippe Garrel
- 1964
Two outcast teenagers are running away from society and from their families. Parents are interviewed while the children are filmed in their countryside idleness.
- The Dandy of 68
- The ‘Return to Fiction’
- Late Post-Realism
This central situation of an impulsive, anarchic flight from society, driven by the idealism of romantic love, will remain a constant in Garrel’s cinema. Les Enfants désaccordés was screened on French television and, in an introductory chat with Garrel, the presenter found him to be a snobbish dandy: “Your collar, your long hair…” The dandy label w...
By 1979, Garrel had kicked drugs, ended his relationship with Nico and, with script assistance from Annette Wademant (collaborator of Max Ophuls and Jacques Becker), initiated a project of self-renewal: L’Enfant secret. He spoke of it as picking up where Les Enfants désaccordées had left off – telling, with necessary artistic licence, the story of ...
This novelistic tendency in Garrel’s work is given a new spin in his most recent films. This is largely due to a voiceover narration that, even if sparse, recounts the story, linking events and filling gaps. But do not expect any kind of realism. In A Burning Hot Summer (2011), one of the central characters, Paul (Jérôme Robart), narrates the story...
A young couple escape from school and home; they are happy in a lonely mansion somewhere; then, they are… asleep?!
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In Garrel's first effort, teenagers Pascal and Christiane run away, steal a car and land in a big house on the outskirts of town. Their games and conversations about their problems with their families alternate with interviews of people endeavouring to explain the youngsters’ behaviour.
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