My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud Movie Review 1993

Postwar Parisian bohemia is depicted in the obsessive friendship between ambitious young poet Jacques Prevel (Barbe) and famed intellectual/poet/impressario Antonin Artaud (Frey), who founded the Theatre of Cruelty. Artaud has returned to Paris after spending nine years in an asylum and is suffering from terminal cancer, the misery of which is partially alleviated by the opiates that Prevel can provide. Delusional and paranoid, Artaud makes his self-destruction into genius while Prevel documents Artaud's last two years in diaries, hoping to gain some measure of fame for himself. French with subtitles. Based on Prevel's "En Compagnie d'Antonin Artaud."

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS
Running time 93 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Postwar, Poetry, Adapted from Memoirs or Diaries, Paris

Screenplay

Gerard Mordillat, Jerome Prieur

Cast

Sami Frey, Marc Barbe, Valerie Jeannet, Julie Jezequel, Charlotte Valandrey

Cinematography

Francois Catonne

Director

Gerard Mordillat

Music

Jean-Claude Petit

Producer

Dennis Freyd