After Le Révélateur, Le Lit de la Vierge and Les Hautes Solitudes, RE:VOIR is pleased to offer an unprecedented edition of Philippe Garrel's first feature film: Marie pour mémoire. A return to childhood, to the primitive gesture of the filmmaker, to his teenage years of cries and revolts, mutism and withdrawal. This edition also includes his first short film, which he directed at 16 in three days only, with the short ends from a film sketch by Claude Berri, on which he was trainee. Finally, there is the famous Actua 1. A revolutionary news film - supported by Jean-Luc Godard - on the month long barricades of May '68, finally unearthed after 47 years from the JLG film archive.
At the time, I was writing texts, but now to define the world as I see it, showing an image is easier than speaking with words.” "I did not choose to be marginalized. I was literally pushed out." - Philippe Garrel
"Late 60s, the golden age of Barthes, Lacan, Debord, Marx and Coca-Cola ... A child of this era but also of Langlois and Murnau, Philippe Garrel, a silent young man, directs his first long feature, Marie pour mémoire. Today, the film is as dated as it is oddly current. Have lived through declamatory tirades, the distanced acting of some actors, the 2-CVs in the streets of Paris. Have retained all their strength and beauty the primitive scenes of Garrel as son, the comic power of Garrel as father, the presence and the face of Zouzou, his silences and his looks, the evocation of social violence, sentimental dereliction and solitude. Any small chronicle, inversely proportional to the film, for memory." - Serge Kaganski, The Inrockuptibles
This DVD/Blu-ray contains:
Marie pour Mémoire, 1967, 76 min
Les enfants désaccordés, 1964, 16 min
Actua 1, 1968, 6 min
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