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Jan 10, 2020 · Design & Living Film in Focus. As the new biopic about the actress arrives in UK cinemas, we revisit her most revelatory film, Les hautes solitudes – a haunting docu-drama, with a cameo by Nico, shot in her Paris flat five years before her death.
Feb 23, 2017 · Feb. 23, 2017. Few films elicit as many satisfyingly divergent responses as “Les Hautes Solitudes.” By turns alluring and alienating, and wholly silent, it was made in 1974 by the French director...
Les hautes solitudes is a 1974 French experimental film written, directed and produced by Philippe Garrel. It stars Jean Seberg with Nico, Tina Aumont and Laurent Terzieff. Originally released in France in 1974, it was screened in New York's Metrograph in 2017. References
Described by Garrel himself as “a film made out of the outtakes of a film that never existed,” this is a silent, transfixing portrait shot on elegiac black and white recalling Andy Warhol’s famed screen tests. Brace yourself for a prophetic, utterly poignant scene foreshadowing Jean Seberg’s death.
Feb 24, 2017 · Les Hautes Solitudes is both ravishing portraiture and wordless biography, a life and aura distilled to glances and gestures.
The life and work of Jean Seberg.
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Les hautes solitudes is truly (to steal the title of a Stan Brakhage book) “film at wit’s end.” Its material precariousness, and preciousness, are evident in every flare and flicker, every swirl of celluloid grain, every dip in the light level coming from a nearby window or bedside lamp.
