Philippe Garrel
Marie pour mémoire
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Add rightsFormat Blu-ray, DVD Interzone
Original format 35mm, 16mm
Year 1964-1967
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Philippe Garrel
Author(s) Nanako Tsukidate, Emeric de Lastens
Subtitles English
Booklet 36 pages (French, English)
Running time 98 min
Films
MARIE POUR MÉMOIRE (1967) 76'
LES ENFANTS DÉSACCORDÉS (1964) 16'
ACTUAI (1968) 6'
Description
After Le Révélateur, Le Lit de la Vierge and Les Hautes solitudes, we are pleased to present a never-before-released edition of Philippe Garrel's first feature film: Marie pour mémoire. A return to childhood, to the filmmaker's primal gesture, to his adolescent years of cries and revolts, silences and withdrawals. This edition also includes his first short film, made at age 16 in 3 days with leftover film stock from a sketch by Claude Berri, on which he was an intern. Finally, there is the famous Actua I. A revolutionary newsreel film—funded by Jean-Luc Godard—about the month of barricades in May '68, it was sought after for 47 years, only to be finally found in JLG's film archives.
These 3 films share a common theme: adolescence, the age of revolt. What is remarkable, for such a young filmmaker, is that they are driven by radically different visions and approaches. Marie pour mémoire stands in the filmmaker's body of work as one of the fictions most removed from autobiographical gesture, favoring instead a slow descent into madness and fabulation. Les Enfants désaccordés proves to be the closest to his intimacy: to his relationship with father(s), with society, with vitality. Finally, in contrast to the certain passivity and disintegration of the first two, Actua I is worthy of the greatest visual pamphlets of the 20th century.