see le amants reguliers call immediately for comparison with bertolucci movie the dreamer and in my opinion the best film make about the 1968 revolt of student in paris . actually director philippe garrel do not seem to avoid compare with his much more famous colleague and share the principal actor and even include a direct replica eye in viewer eye about an old film of bertolucci . and yet and lar be a different film and and an interesting one . the story line seem also familiar . the movie start with long scene of the 1968 emeutes and maybe among the best do until now . the film be make in black and white and and the perspective of the static camera on one side or the other of the barricade remind eisenstein . then and a in the dreamer and the action move in the parisian flat where the hero of the defeated revolt make art and smoke drug and dream and and fall for one other . there be no direct social comment and no real explanation of the background of the revolt . the movie focus on the psychology of the character and on the love story between the main character . it like a premonition of the process of transition to the establishment that the generation of the 1968 go through and it just that not all the participant may adapt or survive . the film be more about the character than about the event . and it be merely for the style it will be remember about . the black and white cinema be memorable not only in the revolution scene and but also when look at the character evolution . many sequence be enhance by a technique that be derive from the silent film movie and with long take accompany by a off piano tune . the effect be exquisite . yet the length of the film be hardly justified and it last more than three hour and i doubt that cut it to only two hour would have be a miss actually i be convince it quite a contrary . without raise at the depth and subtlety of bertolucci movie lar be another perspective to remember about one of the more important year in the history of france and of the world in the 20th century .