Philippe Garrel
Le Révélateur
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Original format 35mm
Year 1968
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Philippe Garrel
Author(s) Sally Shafto, Emeric de Lastens
Subtitles English, German
Booklet 32 pages (French, English)
Running time 62 min
Films
LE RÉVÉLATEUR (1968) 62'
Description
"When we were shooting Le Révélateur in Germany, every time we set up a shot, the police would show up: in itself, that didn't really bother me, I had gone to Germany partly for that reason: to shoot near military camps, to get the feeling of being very oppressed."
— Philippe Garrel
"It was an absolute pleasure for me, at a time when Philippe Garrel had perfectly assimilated the importance of the image in cinema to the point of naming his film Le Révélateur, that he gave me exceptional freedom to improvise and invent, with deliberately very limited lighting equipment to stimulate our imagination and hypersensitive film stock to capture the slightest glimmers or the strongest appearances, the photography of this little silent film is almost amateur, yet it's one of the most beautiful in the history of Cinema with its luminous and charming dreamlike and reasonably fantastic way of telling, recalling or suggesting so many poetic and profound feelings."
— Michel Fournier