MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD is a fictitious account of the final two years of Antonin Artaud's life, based on an autobiographical book by poet Jacques Prevel. Gerard Mordillat's darkly comic docudrama is particularly fascinating for fans of Artaud or for those with an interest
in the bohemian life of Paris in the 1940s.
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was a French poet, writer, and actor, who is best remembered as the author of The Theater and Its Double, a manifesto for his proposed Theater of Cruelty. Prevel's book chronicles the incredible two years he spent with Artaud. MY LIFE AND TIMES WITH ANTONIN ARTAUD begins
in 1946, when Artaud (Sami Frey...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
93 mins