"I now turn to Philippe Garrel who also, I guess, wanted to be understood since this is also a first film that we are going to see," ""Les enfants désaccordés"" "But little formalities first, Philippe Garrel." "Since this is your first film, please present yourself." "Where do you come from, and what brought you to filmmaking?" "Nothing special. ?" "I'm 19." "It is a good remark, but it doesn't answer the question 'why do you make films?" "'" "I don't know, may be I was bored" "Yes?" "Is it enough to be bored to know how to make films, to make them first and to know how to make them following that?" "No, to know to them from our history." "I think these are different things, the technique and..." "Did you know how to make them, or not?" "So, it's not cinema what we are going to see?" "I don't know, really." "It is an 'exposed film'." "It is an 'exposed film'." "It is called "Les enfants désaccordés" and it is... it is not a story, not a true story... but these are real actors who perform a story which could have been true." "Yes, it is a bit of all that." "Yes, since we have to nevertheless say it for the audience, since you are not explicit enough that... the two young people we're going to see." "A young man and a young woman, 15-ish" "These are not professional actors." "Him, a boy who has run away from home, who left his family." "I think you don't like the expression 'run away'" "No!" "Her, also a girl who has left her home at a crucial moment" "But not together." "But their story brings them together based on an idea of yours, which we are going to see." "Am I right?" "Yes" "Great" "Let's then watch "Les enfants désaccordés" by Philippe Garrel" "No one" "We should do a drama series." "For TV as usual." "We'll do nothing." "Nothing to sign." "Pascal, fetch some meat for your little sister." "Hello." "My daughter went out to empty the dustbin 2 hours ago." "She's not come back." " Is she with Caroline?" " I'm very worried too." "My daughter's not been home for two days." " Hi." " Hello." "THE STUDENT PROTESTERS ARE CLOSER THAN THE CATHOLICS" "TO THE SCRIPTURES." "What's he after?" "What bugs me is that my mother and stepfather will think they're to blame." "They're completely out of it." "I've had it with compromises." "What's unbearable in families is the blackmail." "3 years ago, I was fascinated by car racing." "They said going in circles around a circuit isn't essential." " How would you have answered?" " Don't know." "Now they criticize me for not being interested in anything." "It's incredible, they want to apply to me an image that appeals to them." "Mom told me she could see me as an actor." "There's nothing in the paper." "Here, this." "How to tell your parents you are pregnant." "An essay." "What?" "How to explain to your parents you love a girl who's in the family way." "This subject for a composition by a teacher, from Oldham, England for childrem aged fourteen, has caused protests from parents." "Girls from the same school had their own assignment." "How to tell your parents that you are pregnant." "Funny." " Shall we write it?" " You want?" " Like at school." " Introduction." " Development, conclusion." " Right." "Introduction." "I can't." "At this moment, I can't imagine that I can be pregnant, but..." "I'll try to ?" " I'll try and think." " ?" "?" "Dear parents." "I hope you'll be happy." "I hereby announce that you are grandparents." "OK, now the development." " The development." " Now you explain it all." " No?" " Yes, I'll tell it all." "All." "Understand, I was in love." "With a girl." "It all went very well." "She's having my child." "Conclusion." " ?" " Conlcusion." " What'll we do?" " Don't know." "?" "I want to go home." "Pascal, yes." "For me, it was a failure." "It wasn't the first." "You see more and more of these boys." "Who don't know where they are in life." "Looking to make their mark." "They can't." "They interest me, these young lads." "Interest me." "I can see him in class." "Staring at me, staring." "I wondered what lay behind that gaze." "I think I did what I should." "I did what I could." "?" "I had the feeling that..." "Nothing interested him anymore." "A kid like that, 14 years old." "I don't want to seem pretentious but," "The vital drive, you know what I mean." "That's so strong in us when we're young." "In him it was over, dried up, in that kid." "I'm cold." " I'm cold." " Shut up." "That the parents of Pascal, Laurent, Olivier, Christiane," "Carole, Guillaume, et Jean-Francois are very worried." "They should return home while there is still time." "Our father never talks to us." "He talks to us for half an hour, then he shuts up for a month." "What can I say?" "Christian left." "I wait for him to return." "I try not to worry because" "I think he'll be fine." "Well, I hope so." "I am a father, after all." "I think he must experience it himself." "He must have wanted to leave for some time." "And suddenly it must have become urgent." "He must have felt that what he was doing was absurd." "Something similar happened when I was young." "I wrote similar things." "For example, suddently I felt. "What am I doing here?"" ""I'm alive, one day I'll die" And then..." "I'm writing this." "It's absurd." "I stopped and then I left." "After, it was easier because..." "I'd say, with repect to the phenomenon of evidence there was the war" "We were..." "We were occupied." "With my children" "I tried to give them my idea..." "My ideas about the world." "Without..." "without influencing them too much." "The one solution of dealing with this problem is one which isn't possible within society" "Pascal is too old to live at home." "And the possibility of haivng their own place whilst studying is something which is financially impossible for us." "It always falls upon the youngest It always falls upon the youngest" "It'll be them-them-them who gets eaten It'll be them-them-them who gets eaten" "I think I love you." "How can you be sure, you've only known me three weeks?" "You're right, I was just testing" "Shit, I'm decomposing." "When Rimbaud left, where did he get his energy from?" "I don't feel like anything." "I've never had any illusions." "I don't feel like anything." "I'm empty." "I'm bored to death." "After the Aberfan tragedy (Wales)" "Revolt explodes in the village that has no more children" "This film that you just presented," ""Les enfants désaccordés"" "you will understand that, considering the subject, we are more interested in its contents than its formal expression." "So I will let you speak a bit because you have very generously let me speak so far." "What did you want to do or say in this film?" "Nothing, I wanted to show how an emptiness like this could settle..." "I am someone for whom nothing can be done and at the same time I wanted to show that there are all these other modes of the possiblility of living." "For example... obviously we can't communicate any more, be it with someone, we can't have... in life." "We can't live anymore, we die of boredom" "This emptiness you speak of is nevertheless among adoloscents" "You had told us that you are 19" "Not much more than your hero's age" "Your look and style too resemble those of the boy we just saw in this film" "Is this then the film of a generation, is it the emptiness of a generation?" "I don't know if we can generalise..." "This emptiness you speak of is nevertheless among adoloscents" "You had told us that you are 19" "Not much more than your hero's age" "Your look and style too resemble those of the boy we just saw in this film" "Is this then the film of a generation, is it the emptiness of a generation?" "I don't know if we can generalise that way so quickly." "In fact, I think..." "I think is it marked clearly enough in our age this phenomenon which is from 1967." "I don't know if it already existed it is nonetheless ...this result of multiple consequences." "May be a certain style of ?" "the family unit, the way of life of a young man or a young woman." "I don't know." "It is the result of... the way of life accumulated like this" "I think, obviously, no one who has any interest in the real things from time to time, is going to behave this way when faced with... the monstrosity of life" "You mean all normal beings, according to you, must react like this at some point in life?" "No, no one is normal, but I mean all beings who still have ?" "in them are sometimes stuck like this by the monstrosity of the rest" "It blocks their way." "They can't continue materially any more" "They sometime over come that, sometimes stay where they are." "You reproached me for generalizing hastily, but it seems you are doing the same because you believe that even in the current age, in this very instant that it is this we see." "I'm not so sure of that." "I don't know, my..." "The beings that interest me..." "Myself, I've great difficuly carrying on." "It seems to me to be a phenomenon that affects most people who are more or less near a reality" "But you say 'people like this' as if you were afraid of talking about the young or the adolescent" "Is it not the a problem of the young that you have filmed" "No, to pin it on the young, it is far from what I wanted to say." "I think" "I was dealing with two people because till now it is how it seemed to me." "But it could also be about?" "the presence of the abyss like this." "?" "?" "When I see a film by Godard, I feel that it could be anybody's abyss" "It's not because..." "Isn't it a generational conflict that you wanted to show?" "Not at all, I think that's a fake problem." "Nevertheless, we get the impression the adults you present are a bit caricatured the professor, the parents" "No, these are people who are... very outmoded because" "?" "I think these are fine people." "I did not want to oppose them." "A generation that had truer things to say than us" "I think that the girl's father and the boy's father are very nice people and obviously they can't react correctly as these are nice people." "What to do?" "They can't call the police because the kid has left." "I mean, it's not a healthy reaction." "They are outmoded that way." "They told me, I don't know if it's correct, they like to confirm it that what they said in their interview was much more important, yes, but also very nuanced and very explanatory than what you have arranged" "between you and your actors, you made a montage deliberate, to give an impression of an outmoded adult" "No" "No?" "I don't know" "May be it was more confused because when people start expressing themselves like this in a very determined fashion, they have difficulty in thinking clearly (We at the television know that) ...and calmly, but I think" "as per the sequence." "That is, on the level of... the edited image, I think it is faithful to their thoughts" "This is my last question." "I have the impression while watching your film and listening to you." "that there is nevertheless a kind of hostility in your world view, and perhaps mine too, but but a kind of reserve that you say you can't understand" "We are in a domain that escapes you" "I really want to make the effort and have the politeness of responding" "You give us the apparent impression we're old timers incapable of understanding what..." "No, no." "You misunderstand that." "That is the idea I get" "No, I mean..." "It appears to me to be a problem so big that" "I don't see how people aren't necessarily turned on when we mention the abyss, the emptiness, the absence and, materially, they are all essentially a personal reference, in the end, and these people feel... people who don't have personal reference are" "still at the level of animals, I think" "Listen, to wrap up, I would nevertheless like to ask if you've other film projects, as when you've made one, I imagine there will be a second" "I have made another" "You have made another?" "In the same genre?" "I don't know." "I don't think so." "It would be better if we see it one day and... you come to show it to us and you accept once more to RESPOND, with certain condescension to our questions." "Thanks anyway for coming tonight" "We have come to the end of tonight's TESTING GROUND" "We will meet for the next TESTING GROUND, may be." "Good evening."