Regular Lovers
Les amants réguliers
Director: Philippe GARREL
Winner – Louis Delluc 2005 – Best French Film of the Year
Winner - Best Director - 2005 Venice Film Festival
Celebrated auteur Philippe Garrel has reached new heights with this achingly beautiful film about the true events of 1968, when students and workers almost toppled a government. The film centres on twenty-year-old poet Francois (Louis Garrel) and his friends who find themselves caught up in the revolutionary promise and chaotic excitement of the revolts. After the riots die down, the group retreats into a rambling mansion recently inherited by its young owner, and these children of paradise experience the euphoria of communal freedom - smoking, discussing politics, falling in love, dancing ecstatically. But reality inevitably comes to collect its due. Francois watches as his group metamorphoses and, as he falls in love with a young artist (Clotilde Hesme) and starts to make new commitments, feels himself changing as well.
One of the festival’s unmissable highlights, REGULAR LOVERS is an intimate and poetic epic about a generation grappling with its restless ambitions. The beauty of the film - the shimmering black-and-white tones and the purity of the compositions – is never short of spectacular.
France 2005 - Drama (178 mins)
In French with English Subtitles
Director: Philippe Garrel
Script: Philippe Garrel, Marc Cholodenko, Arlette Langmann
Cast: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Eric Rulliat