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My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud

En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud

1993 · 1h 30m · Drama · France

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

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Gérard Mordillat
Starring
Sami Frey, Marc Barbé, Julie Jézéquel, Valérie Jeannet
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