| | | A Film by Philippe Garrel.
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, English, Subtitled, Black & White
Winner of numerous international awards and garnering universal acclaim worldwide, Philippe Garrel's Regular Lovers (Les Amants reguliers) is a rapturous paean to France's near-revolution of May '68 and its aftermath. Shooting in lustrous black and white, Garrel and legendary cinematographer William Lubtchansky capture the era's ambiance with an opulent intimacy that suggests an apocryphal French New Wave opus, while sparring overtly with Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial The Dreamers.Leading a young cast who look and act uncannily period-perfect, the director's son Louis Garrel (The Dreamers, Dans Paris, Ma Mere) confirms himself as one of the hottest new French performers of the moment. Garrel the younger plays Francois, a student-slash-poet grappling with the tumult--and the doomed romance--of the infamous Parisian riots. After the movement implodes, everyday reality hits with a crash: Francois is hauled in for draft-dodging, falls in love with aloof sculptor Lilie (Clotilde Hesme), while the well-heeled Antoine can only pass the opium pipe. Regular Lovers is a stunning re-imagining of a misunderstood "golden" age, painstakingly crafted with a combination of bitter nostalgia and an austere yet romantic vision of Paris by night and day.
"...the heavier politicized and unsentimentalized counterpoint to Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers."" Aaron Hillis, Premiere
"A magical and supernally beautiful meditative drug-trip head-space picture..." Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"...what The Dreamers should have been." Dennis Lim, The Village Voice
"...[a] magnificent film..." Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
"...requires a commitment in time and brain power - a commitment worth making." V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Editor's Note
REGULAR LOVERS is a stark and moving drama based in riot-torn Paris circa 1968. Louis Garrel stars as a man caught up in the turmoil.
| Features | Audio: French Dolby Digital | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
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Release Information
| | Studio: ZEITGEIST FILMS |
| Release Date: 5/22/2007 |
| Running Time: 175 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1968 | | Catalog ID: 1087 | | UPC: 00795975108737 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | Clotilde Hesme | | Eric Rulliat | | Julien Lucas | | Louis Garrel | | Francoise Collin - Editor | | Gilles Sandoz - Producer | | Jean-Claude Vannier - Original Music By | | Mathieu Menut - Production Designer | | Nikos Meletopoulos - Production Designer | | Philippe Garrel - Editor | | Philippe Garrel - Director | | Philippe Garrel, et. al. - Writer | | Pierre Chevalier - Producer | | William Lubtchansky - Cinematographer |
| Awards |
Winner (2005) | | | Venice Film Festival, William Lubtchansky, Golden Osella Award - Outstanding Technical Contribution | | | Venice Film Festival, Philippe Garrel, Silver Lion Award - Best Director | |
Nominee (2005) | | | Venice Film Festival, Philippe Garrel, Golden Lion Award |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"[With] shimmering black-and-white tones....[A] magnificent film..." 01/19/2007 p.E10Strictly Film School 9 of 10
Regular Lovers is a quintessential Philippe Garrel film. Part self-exorcism of the failed idealism of the May 68 counter-culture revolution that inevitably burned out in a haze of recreational drug use, sexual liberation, and the inertia of bohemianism, and part elegy on love found in the wreckage of a heartbreaking aftermath that, too, becomes inevitably lost...The film's final sequence - an evocation of the romanticism of revolution - is a fitting double entendre that recalls an earlier extended dream sequence of the French Revolution, as the latent potency of the dross opium becomes a metaphor, not only for the crystalized potential for upheaval and (self)destruction that continues to sublimate within the souls of a consumed and demoralized May 68 generation, but also, in its stabilized, incombustible form, represents the consumed residue of a transitory and ephemeral moment of bliss and paradise lost.
Variety 7 of 10
Gallic helmer Philippe Garrel's latest homage to the New Wave, "Regular Lovers," stars the helmer's son, Louis Garrel, as a Parisian student revolutionary not dissimilar to the one he played in "The Dreamers," but this time with a passion for poetry instead of cinema. In a thin smear of plot stretched across three hours, hero and friends throw bombs, and get laid and stoned a lot in May '68 and after. Ravishing B&W lensing by veteran William Lubtchanski...Pic starts promisingly enough with a hypnotic, almost dialogue-free sequence showing 20-year-old Francois (Louis Garrel) and his buddies taking on riot police with makeshift barricades and Molotov cocktails on the streets of Paris as the events of May 1968 kick off...However, the film's slow tempo induces the feeling one is living through the whole of 1968 in one sitting. - Leslie Felperin
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