Regular Lovers
Drama, Romance
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2005
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1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Director:
Cast:
Same Director
Details
Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
183 min
Release date:
14 Sep 2005
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
7 wins & 3 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
It's clearly an intensely personal project for the director, who was 20 himself in '68 (and shooting the riot police in 35mm) and has also cast his father Maurice and the music of his partner Nico.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
Garrel is not just an artless aesthete, he is unexpectedly and intensely romantic -- imagining and realizing a character who can die for love.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
16 Jan 2007
fresh:
Regular Lovers isn't a folly-of-youth story that aches with emotion, like Au Revoir, Les Enfants or The Squid And The Whale. It's drier, and simpler. You are there. Iris out.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
19 Jan 2007
fresh:
Not much happens, but the director keeps our attention nevertheless.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
19 Jan 2007
fresh:
This tender portrait of late-1960s French youth stars Louis Garrel as Francois, a 20-year-old Parisian struggling through the fires of revolutionary promise and its smoldering remains.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
26 Jan 2007