5 Movies Directed by Philippe Garrel

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1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. Franèois 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 Franèois can stay. Franèois meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; Franèois continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and Franèois do?

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A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.

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Frèdèric and Angèle are a married couple, he a painter, she an actress of some renown who gave up her career to be with him. She is a woman who most men desire. Struggling actors Paul and èlisabeth, neither who has any money, start to date after they meet as extras on a movie set. Shortly before Paul and èlisabeth met, Frèdèric and Paul became friends after being introduced by a mutual acquaintance. By association, all four become friends, especially strengthened when Paul and èlisabeth decide to move into Frèdèric and Angèle's spacious apartment in Rome. Following an attempted suicide by Frèdèric, Paul reflects on the friendship between the four. Because of physical proximity, they couldn't help but become closer emotionally. So whenever something happened within one of their lives, either directly concerning one or more of the others or not, it couldn't help but affect the other three, the battle lines more often drawn not by couple but by gender.

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A 30-year-old man lives with a woman in a small, furnished rental. He has a daughter by another woman - a woman he abandoned. A theatre actor and very poor, he is madly in love with this other woman. She was once a rising star, but all offers of work have dried up. The man does everything he can to get her a role, but nothing works out. The woman cheats on him. And then she leaves him. The man tries to kill himself, but fails. His sister visits him in hospital. She's all he has left - his sister and the theatre.