Philippe Garrel - Les amants réguliers (DVD)

A street fight, an opiate dream, a love story, and ferocious hatreds: simply combining these elements results in any youth. However, there was a time when they all worked together in a unique alchemy to create a dizzying adventure. Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers returns to May 1968 to create a film that endures and soars, tender and cruel, poetic and romantic.
– Thomas Sotinel, Le Monde

With its magnificent palette of blacks and whites, its piano-accompanied close-ups, the fluidity of its editing and the way it allows the shot to take over everything, Regular Lovers restores the expressive power of a time in cinema when speech was not even missed. But if, despite its numerous dialogues, Regular Lovers is a silent drama, it's also due to its character's inability to communicate. The speechless character is Francois (Louis Garrel), an infinitely romantic young poet who discovers passionate love in the turmoil of Mav '68, and will pay dearly for his inability to express in words the intensity of the feeling that grips him.
– Jean-Marc Lalanne, Les Inrocks