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Troublemaker is a film by French director Philippe Garrel from the year 2004. It is based on an original screenplay by Garrel, Arlette Langmann and Marc Cholodenko and was produced by the production company Maïa Films in cooperation with ARTE, among others. The film had its world premiere on September 3, 2005 during the International Film Festival of Venice in 2005.

Action

Having participated in the student revolt in May 1968 in Paris, a group of young Parisians the bohemian lifestyle prescribes. In the home of a wealthy friend, a passionate relationship between the young François and Lilie developed.

Garrel is a disillusioning picture of the '68 generation students sit around and smoke opium, lounging in their homes and lead an uninteresting life. Nevertheless, it is the complexity and dynamics of these time justly when he observed his protagonists in their sometimes annoying, sometimes pathetic life.

Criticism

" The clever thought out environment and society study evokes in sensitive black-and- white images, the lifestyle of the 1960s. The slow rhythm keeps the audience a little bit at a distance, but at the same time enables him to empathize with an era that were torn down in the social boundaries and everything seemed possible. "

Awards

Philippe Garrel was honored for troublemakers on the 62nd Film Festival in Venice in 2005, the Silver Lion for best director. In the same year he also received the prestigious Louis- Delluc price. The main actor Louis Garrel received at the César Awards 2006 the award for best young actor. As part of the European Film Awards Philippe Garrel received for the film also the 2006 European FIPRESCI Prize.

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