- Born
- Philippe Garrel was born on April 6, 1948 in Paris, France. He is a writer and director, known for Regular Lovers (2005), I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (1991) and Lover for a Day (2017).
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesThierry Garrel(Sibling)
- Lived with Velvet Underground singer Nico (who starred in many of his films) for roughly ten years in Paris and the Spanish island of Ibiza.
- Father of Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel.
- Son of Maurice Garrel.
- Professor at the FEMIS.
- Brother of producer Thierry Garrel.
- [on his favorite films] My three top films are Godard's My Life to Live (1962), Bergman's Summer with Monika (1953) and Murnau's Sunrise (1927).
- I knew a director, Pierre Romans, who said an actor must never act poetic and to be poetic, you have to act in a realistic manner, with a trivial element. I agreed with him and ever since, I've been thinking that way about everything, including the way I compose shots. Poetry in cinema can only exist unconsciously. It comes out if the film has a soul.
- Cinema is great as long as the acting is good, which means good directing. It's at the heart of everything. If a scene doesn't work, if a film seems unconvincing, it is because the actors are bad, or there is a bad vibe on the set.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
