Garrel

A young couple escape from school and home; they are happy in a lonely mansion somewhere; then, they are... asleep?!

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.

The portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie.

Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.

A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

Biographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche's The Antichrist.

A woman sitting on a bench, silent, filmed long and closely.

An androgynous poet/dreamer sits and writes and meditates on the aching void that is her life.

Four chapters based on the birth of a 'secret child', or a film, with chapter titles: "La séction Césarienne" (Caesarian section: a descriptive detail introducing the mother); "Le dernier guerrier" (the last warrior: how the father sees himself); "Le cercle ophydique" (the serpent's closed circle: the couple reunites at the psychiatric ward); "Les forêts désenchantées" (unfairy forests: the film in the making).

At the top of a neo-classical building, a man looks at the sky, a woman reads, hair in the wind.

Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.

In the midst of the Algerian events, a man finds happiness beside a local woman.

A young film director is turning a movie with his friend Christa (reminds us of the real-life relationship between Garrel and Nico). In the film-within-the-film there are two couples, one real, one imagined , and the film - told through five dreams - is as much the story of a film on-production, as the birth of a child.

The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life, and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such a project in which she wanted to play herself.

For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.

Middle-aged artists provide the focus of this drama. The story is set in Paris around the time of the Gulf War. Paul, an actor leading a drab directionless existence, has an affair with Ulrika, a woman half his age. His wife, with whom he constantly argues, is pregnant with their second child. He does not interact much with his teenage son. Much of the film centers around the emptiness of his life.

Philippe is a middle-aged painter who lives with Annie and they have two kids together. But they break up, and just afterward, Philippe meets Justine and he begins to think about love and the relationship between former lovers. Who is he meant to be with? Annie, Justine, or somebody else entirely?

Hélène is unhappy with her marriage but finds some comfort and relief with young art student Paul. They reflect on their differences in age and background, but also what truly connects them. The third character in the story is Serge, a famous artist admired by Paul; he has a great historical past, but he's also very conflicted and has been through many life obstacles, stories he shares with his new friend on a road trip during which Paul finds new perspectives to his current situation with Hélène, and learn more about what life and love truly mean.

A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.

Amidst the chaos of student and union protests, 20-year-old Parisian poet François finds himself in legal hot water for dodging a stint in the French military. While at a party, he falls in love with Lilie, a would-be sculptor.

A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.

The once-happy marriage between brooding painter Frederic and his movie-star wife Angele hits the rocks when another couple joins them on a Roman holiday.

As a man leaves his wife and daughter, a series of brief conversations, observed gestures, chance encounters and impulsive acts, tell the story of the relationships that flounder and thrive in the wake of this decision.