Country: France
Year: 1984
Duration: 17'
"The last scene is not autobiographical at all. Even if I tried once to kill myself, I am still alive. However, to end the film like that had the advantage of completing the symmetry between the two characters. Since Rue Fontaine is nothing more than a sketch, I had to keep to a very simple form. I constructed the story of René starting from my life with Nico. Or better, I took some excerpts: the slap, the separation, and also Génie's 'symmetrical' monologue that story of the dead boy child, adapted from an episode from Jean's life... Génie's dead girl child, like Elli's little boy in L'enfant secret, represents a piece of past fife. When people form a couple, there are two stories that meet. Inevitably, the past weighs upon the present." (Interview by Thomas Lescure, in Une caméra ` la place du coeur, Editions AdmirandaInstitut de l'Image, AixenProvence 1992).
Biography
film director
Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1948. He made his first short, Les enfants désaccordés, in 1964 at the age of 16 and quickly stood out for his radical approach to the cinema.
FILMOGRAFIA
Les enfants désaccordés (cm, 1964), Droit de visite (cm, 1965), Anémone (16mm, mm, film Tv, 1966-67), Marie pour mémoire (1967), Actua 1 (realizzazione collettiva, cm, 1968), Le révélateur (1968), La concentration (1968), Le lit de la vierge (1969), La cicatrice intérieure (mm, 1970-71), Athanor (cm, 1972), Les hautes solitudes (1974), Un ange passe (1975), Le berceau de cristal (1975), Voyage au jardin des morts (mm, 1976), Le bleu des origines (mm, 1978), L'enfant secret (1979), Liberté, la nuit (1983), Rue Fontaine (episodio di Paris vu par... vingt-Cinq ans aprés, cm, 1984), Elle a passè tant d'heures sous les sunlights... (1984), Les baisers de secours (1988), J'entends plus la guitare (1991), La naissance de l'amour (1993), Le coeur fantôme (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Philippe Garrel.
Director of photography: Pascal Laperrousaz.
Music: Faton Cahen.
Editor: Sophie Coussein.
Cast and characters: Christine Boisson (Génie), JeanPierre Léaud (René), Philippe Garrel (Louis).
Production company: JIVI Production, Film A2.
Director of photography: Pascal Laperrousaz.
Music: Faton Cahen.
Editor: Sophie Coussein.
Cast and characters: Christine Boisson (Génie), JeanPierre Léaud (René), Philippe Garrel (Louis).
Production company: JIVI Production, Film A2.