Jealousy (Philippe Garrel, 2013)

6/10
I’m a big fan of Philippe Garrel’s 1968 experimental film Le Revelateur, and I’ve always wanted to see his 1972 film that looks even crazier, Le Cicatrice Interieur. I haven’t heard much of him in the intervening years so I checked out Jealousy, his fourth consecutive film starring his son Louis. Louis plays an actor with an ex-wife, a new girlfriend, and a young daughter. The film focuses mainly on Louis and his girlfriend’s indiscretions and the titular emotion it evokes in both of them, but briefly touches on the jealousy felt by his ex-wife at their daughter’s new relationship with Louis’ girlfriend. It’s a pretty rote examination of jealousy, almost entirely unremarkable save for the charming performance of the young girl playing the daughter. With a paper thin plot and barely clocking in at over an hour in length, this feels like a minor effort indeed from someone who did some way more interesting things 40 years ago.

Le Revelateur (Philippe Garrel, 1968)

9/10
A 1968 film coming in at just over an hour featuring three actors (a mother, a father, a son), no dialogue or any soundtrack whatsoever, high-contrast black-and-white photography, and was apparently filmed with a majority of the cast and crew under the influence of LSD. Luckily I have a high tolerance for drug-induced 60's pretentiousness, so I found it quite fascinating in its own way. Can't way to see some of director Philippe Garrel's other wackiness from the same era, particularly La Cicatrice Intérieure starring Garrel's muse and partner, Nico.