My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud (movie)
En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud- User score: 6.5
- Production country: France
- Producer: Gérard Mordillat
- Production companies: Archipel 33>35, France 2, La Sept, Laura Productions
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/16/1993
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
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.
