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My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud
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MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD

En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud

Directed by Gérard Mordillat
France, 1993
Biography

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis

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.