Released Date:
1995-11-01
Languages:
French
Countries:
France
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (90 Reviews)
Director:
Gèrard MordillatGèrard Mordillat
Jacques Prevel (book)
Jèrème Prieur
May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.
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