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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.It’s a riot. Regular Lovers is a rare excursion into British cinema screens for director Philippe Garrel, one of the unsung heroes of French cinema. The former partner of Velvet Underground’s Nico is famed for his melancholic poetry and realism on screen. Working with miniscule budgets, his films are often contemporary and autobiographical. Given his status, it’s an outrage that only his debut film, Marie Pour Mémoire (made way back in 1967), has previously been released on British screens. Even his son, Louis Garrel, star of The Dreamers, is better known on these shores. Thankfully, film number 25, Regular Lovers, his three-hour take on the French student riots of 1968, is being released here. And the decision to cast Louis in the lead is probably not an act of nepotism, more a criticism of Bernardo Bertolucci’s treatment of that same era in The Dreamers. Playing Louis’ love interest is rising French actress Clotilde Hesme, who jokes, “After getting the part I watched some of Garrel’s old films. When I told him what I’d seen, he would say about some of them, ‘Why did you watch that one? It’s not very good.’ He taught me a lot about acting and that period.” So if you really want to know what it was like to be a radical student on the Left Bank in 1968, Regular Lovers is essential viewing. Regular Lovers, on selected release 21 July 06.
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