Liberté, la nuit

Director: Philippe Garrel

1984 / 82min / DCP

Garrel’s tribute to his parents and the supporters of the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in their struggle for Algerian liberation takes place in a Paris keenly attuned to news of the bloody conflict overseas, featuring the director’s father, Maurice, as a no-longer-young FLN partisan who, following the politically motivated murder of wife Emmanuelle Riva, embarks on an affair with Christine Boisson, a French Algerian pied noir whose identity is not unknown to his wife’s killers in the right-wing paramilitary group OAS. “Mine is the cinema of the left—if I refused to join the army, if I have contempt for the various means of amassing money, it’s thanks to a few people I knew in my childhood, who lived in conditions of poverty, but who were kings.” —Philippe Garrel

Part of Fugitive Days