Regular Lovers

aka: Les Amants réguliers
France 2005, 171 minutes, B/W
Dir. Philippe Garrel
In French with English subtitles
Rating: [R16]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama / Youth

Feat. Louis Garrel, Clotilde Hesme

Aroview: A richly photographed, Nouvelle Vague-styled homage to the revolutionary spirit of protesters in 1968 Paris, dir. Garrel offers a lucid, at times hypnotic version of events crowned by a stunning half-hour recreation of the infamous student riots.

Something of a reaction to THE DREAMERS, this also stars Garrel's son Louis, though captures a sense of disillusionment and urgency that Bertolucci's movie rather wantonly overlooked in favour of excessive film-referencing and dirty sex.

NZ International Film Festival 2008