My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud
1993 · 90 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 173 VOTES · DIR. Gérard Mordillat
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 852 lines
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00:00:00 Denis Freyd presente
00:06:28 I doubt it. I'm totally unknown.
00:09:09 No, a stranger.
00:14:14 He's not ill.
00:19:52 but because of the harm done to her.
00:22:40 "There once was a king of Thule...
00:26:07 Mr Prevel.
00:33:13 And one day
00:35:30 Yet...
00:39:39 Yes, why?
00:42:39 Don't thank me, Mr Artaud.
00:44:47 No one.
00:47:00 "was walking back up your quivering life
00:51:31 Remember when you used to beg for money?
00:54:20 What do you think of Marthe?
00:57:29 Jany's not a phony.
01:00:42 that girl is causing your wife great pain.
01:03:04 So my last poems disappointed you.
01:09:11 you had only praise for the one I read at Marthe's.
01:12:52 "like the doctors I had to endure.
01:16:00 Will you shut up, you savage?
01:19:20 Good night, gentlemen.
01:23:29 Wait for me.
01:30:05 Processed by: C.M.C. - Paris
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed852
Dialogue density9.5 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:30:05
Production Record
DirectorGérard Mordillat
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes173