Philippe Garrel
Les Hautes Solitudes
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Original format 35mm
Year 1974
Artist(s) Philippe Garrel
Author(s) Maximilian Le Cain, Ben Sachs
Booklet 32 pages (French, English)
Running time 82 min
Films
LES HAUTES SOLITUDES (1974) 82'
Description
The portrait of Jean Seberg, a forty-year-old woman in the silence of a woman's solitude...
"Jean was infinitely superior to the image that Hollywood people had given of her (all the same, she had appeared in Breathless and in Robert Rossen's Lilith, which gave her that magnificent role of a schizophrenic). All it took was a camera for her to transform into an extraordinary actress. In her presence, I felt an irresistible need to film, to film as a cinematographer. Les Hautes solitudes is entirely devoted to her. I remember bringing her the print as soon as it was struck (it's something I often do, I did it for Zouzou too) as a kind of gift, a very modest gift but still..."
— Philippe Garrel