"Philippe Garrel is a French director born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1939. A precocious child of cinema, Philippe Garrel, son of the actor Maurice Garrel, shot his first films from the mid-sixties: his brilliant, incandescent cine-poems named "Les Enfants désaccordés" (1964), "Marie for Memory" (1967), "Le Révélateur" (1968), or "Concentration" (1968). With the singer Nico by his side, his partner in the seventies, Garrel's quest for an existence transcended by art took a psychedelic turn (from "The Inner Scar" in 1971 to "L'Enfant secret" in 1979). His cinema is attentive to the insurrectional impetus of youth (like that of 1968 in "Regular Lovers") as well as the intensity of amorous sentiments ("The Birth of Love", 1993; "Lover for a Day", 2016)".
