Philippe GarrelFilmography

Born:: April 6, 1948 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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La Frontière de l'Aube

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clementine Poidatz, Emmanuel Broche, Olivier Massart

Synopsis: Neglected by her husband and longing for companionship, lonely Hollywood actress Carole enters into a passionate affair with a photographer who has been assigned to capture her portrait. Filmmaker Philippe Garrel directs a drama starring Louis Garrel, Clémentine Poidatz, and Laura Smet. ~ Jason Read More

4/22/09
Regular Lovers

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme, Eric Rulliat, Julien Lucas, Nicolas Bridet

Synopsis: Touted in many circles as a response to The Dreamers (2003) -- Bernardo Bertolucci's ode to Paris in May 1968 -- Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers (aka Les Amants Réguliers) explores the same events cinematically but undertakes a wholly unique aesthetic and temporal approach. The director follows Read More

1/19/07
Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque

Actors: Henri Alékan, Jo Amorin, Jean-Michel Arnold, Christian Auboire, Raphael Bassan

Synopsis: Henri Langlois was, in many respects, the ultimate film fan. In 1936, at the age of 22, Langlois became (along with Jean Mitry and Georges Franju) one of the founders of the Cinémathèque Française, a theater and museum devoted to preserving the history of the motion picture. Initially a tiny Read More

10/12/05
Sauvage Innocence

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julia Faure, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Michel Subor, Jerome Huguet, Zsuzanna Varkonyi

Synopsis: A man creating a cautionary tale about drug abuse finds himself and his lover drawn into the deadly web of heroin in this drama. Francois Mauge (Mehdi Behaj Kacem) is a filmmaker who is still dealing with the death of his wife, a well-known model and actress who succumbed to drugs. Determined to Read More

2001
Le Vent de la Nuit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Duval, Xavier Beauvois, Jacques Lasalle

Synopsis: French superstar Catherine Deneuve stars in this downbeat drama about the fine line between love and need. Deneuve plays Hélène, an attractive but aging housewife who keeps a lover, a young artist named Paul (Xavier Beauvois). Hélène is strongly attracted to Paul, but isn't sure if he's interested Read More

1999
Le Coeur Fantome

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Luis Rego, Aurelia Alcais, Maurice Garrel, Evelyne Didi

Synopsis: A hangdog, middle-aged painter falls in love with a tender young college student after he leaves his philandering wife and his children in this romantic French drama. To console himself, the fundamentally bohemian Phillippe finds comfort in the arms of various prostitutes, especially Valeria. It Read More

1996
La Naissance de L'Amour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna ter Steege, Dominique Reymond, Marie-Paul Laval

Synopsis: Middle-aged artistes provide the focus of this drama filmed in black and white. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul is an actor leading a drab directionless existence. He has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is Read More

1994
À Naissance De L'Amour

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1994
J'entends Plus la Guitare

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Benoit Regent, Johanna ter Steege, Yann Collette, Mireille Perrier

Synopsis: As a young man, Gerard was in a relationship with Marianne, a woman he called the love of his life, someone he would love even beyond the veils of death. However, somehow he drifted out of his relationship with her, though they were occasionally in touch with one another. Many relationships later Read More

1991
Les Baisers de Secours

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Sy, Philippe Garrel, Maurice Garrel, Anémone

Synopsis: The kicker in this black and white film about the director of the film making a film about his life (got that?) is that almost everyone playing a family member of the director (who plays himself, naturally) really is a family member. In the story, director Phillippe Garrel is preparing to make a Read More

1989
Paris Vu Par... 20 Ans Apres

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria de Medeiros, Pascale Salkin, Julien Dubois, Daniel Mesguich

Synopsis: This anthology is comprised of six vignettes made by different Noveau Vague filmmakers. Each short film centers on a different aspect of Parisian life. The films and their directors include: J'ai Faim, J'ai Froid by Chantal Akerman; Place Clichy by Bernard Dubois; Rue Fontaine by Philippe Garrel Read More

1984
Elle a Passe Tant d'Heures Sous les Sunlights

Crew: Director

Actors: Mireille Perrier, Jacques Bonnaffé, Anne Wiazemsky, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Too many hours under the sun, artificial or not, might have warped this experimental work by Philippe Garrel. Ostensibly starting out as a movie about a young man and a woman whose relationship is coming apart, the story itself then comes apart. Soon director Garrel himself is in front of the Read More

1984
Rue Fontaine

Crew: Director

Actors: Christine Boisson, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Philippe Garrel

1984
Liberté, la Nuit

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Emmanuelle Riva, Maurice Garrel, Christine Boisson, Laszlo Szabo, Brigitte Sy

Synopsis: Set during the Algerian war for independence in the 1950s and early '60s, this undistinguished drama centers on Jean (Maurice Garrel) who works covertly for the FLN, the Algerian independence fighters, and although he does not know it, the woman he loves (Mouche, played by Emmanuelle Riva), is Read More

1983
L'Enfant Secret

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Anne Wiazemsky

1983
Voyage Au Jardin Des Morts

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Maria Schneider

1978
Le Berceau De Cristal

Crew: Director

Actors: Nico, Dominique Sanda, Anita Pallenberg, Margarethe Clementi

1975
Un Ange Passe

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurent Terzieff, Maurice Garrel, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

1974
Les Hautes Solitudes

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Seberg, Tina Aumont, Laurent Terzieff, Nico

1974
Athanor

Crew: Director

Actors: Nico

1973
La Cicatrice Interieure

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nico, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel

Synopsis: This is a highly experimental French film consisting of no more than 23 camera shots, total. It resembles nothing so much as one of Warhol's earlier films, except that it is more episodic. Nico of the Velvet Underground portrays a different woman in each of the episodes. The first three concern Read More

1972
Le Lit De La Vierge

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Zouzou, Tina Aumont, Margarethe Clementi

Synopsis: Philippe Garrel's 1969 feature La lit de la vierge (The Virgin's Bed) represents a spiritual and thematic cousin to his 2005 film The Regular Lovers; whereas the latter revisits the tumultuous Parisian events of May 1968 over 35 years later, and carefully reconstructs those days with docudrama Read More

1969
La Concentration

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Zouzou

Synopsis: This plodding and confusing feature finds two disenchanted young lovers cavorting around in tee shirts and rubber pants. Hints of youthful discontent and symbolism are presented in this pretentious film about a couple who live an embryonic existence cut off from the rest of the world. The most Read More

1969
Anemone

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maurice Garrel, Anne Aymone Bourguignon

Synopsis: Anemone(Anne Aymone Bourguignon) is a young teenage girl who gets mixed up with a murderous hippie. Her father is a psychiatrist who allows his daughter the freedom to make her own choices. The hippie murders and robs a woman janitor then proceeds to seduce the impressionable Anemone. She is Read More

1968
Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant

Crew: First Assistant Director

Actors: Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole, Roger Carel

Synopsis: Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a triumphant return to leading roles in the charming, poignant The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant). Simon plays a likeable old soak with one significant character flaw: he Read More

1968
Marie Pour Memoire

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Zouzou, Didier Leon, Nicole Laguigner, Thierry Garrel, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: A young hippie feels disenfranchised with the modern world around him. He tries to enter into a relationship with a young girl, but the two are plagued by their own individual problems and things don't work out as they would like. The two feel alienated from society and each other in this symbolic Read More

1968
Droit De Visite

Crew: Director

Actors: Guillaume Laperrousaz, Maurice Garrel

1965
Les Enfants Desaccordes

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Garrel

1964