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
00:06:25 They're bewitching you too, Mr Prevel.
00:09:03 Or he's so hyper-lucid that he's a stranger.
00:14:05 What do you think?
00:17:22 Thanks.
00:22:23 "whose faithful courtesan...
00:25:21 "but not the cup, his dear souvenir."
00:32:44 the earth existed for millions of years
00:35:02 your heart
00:38:47 He left you a note.
00:41:19 No.
00:43:55 Only a hermaphrodite shows what love should be
00:46:16 Thank you.
00:50:34 I was leaving.
00:53:14 carrying him
00:55:51 I'll go home.
00:59:47 Is this a hotel?
01:01:52 Why do they all fight each other like wolves?
01:05:35 Laziness?
01:11:33 Answer, or you won't leave this room alive!
01:14:00 I'm in hell.
01:17:15 We go oFF into the night.
01:20:12 but as I screamed I felt nothing more.
01:25:09 screwy-ed.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed852
Dialogue density9.5 lines / min
First line00:00:00
Final line01:25:09
Production Record
DirectorGérard Mordillat
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes173