Icarus Films will be joining forces with France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, on Apr. 27 for the domestic DVD debut for French filmmaker Philippe Garrel’s The Salt of Tears.
The French New Wave still lives strong in Garrel’s award-winning works. For cinephiles it is hard to believe that he has been at this since 1964 … where did the time go? Garrel was just 16-years old when he wrote his first script, the youngest of the French New Wave, with his mentors being none other than François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
Twice he has won at the Cannes Film Festival for his works — Lover for a Day (L'amant d'un Jour) and Liberté, la Nuit — plus the film festival circuit knows him well over the years … he has endured.
With The Salt of Tears, Garrel delivers a story of encounters and love affairs that is filmed in glorious black and white. His film opened at the Berlin International Film Festival in the days just prior to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and would have certainly expanded to other venues in the weeks and months that followed, but that didn’t happen.
Icarus Films has scored a major coup with the domestic DVD debut of Garrel’s latest … his fans know his work well, from his early days — Marie for Memory, The Virgin's Bed and The Inner Scar to his more contemporary films — In the Shadow of Women, Lover for a Day and Jealousy. They will not be disappointed with The Salt of Tears.
On the surface it seems like a simple tale of a young man, Luc (Logann Antuofermo in his film debut), is an apprentice furniture maker who travels to Paris in an effort to expand his horizons. There he meets a beautiful young woman by the name of Djemila (Oulaya Amamra — Divines, Farewell to the Night, French Touch: Girls of Summer) and falls in love.
He returns home after this encounter and takes up with an old friend, Geneviève (Louise Chevillotte — Lover for a Day, The World After Us), and sees her in a different light and falls in love with her as well.
His skills as a craftsman improve and he finds an opportunity for a dream job back in Paris and there he encounters yet a third woman, Betsy (Souheila Yacoub — Climax, Les Affamés) … will he also fall in love with her, and if so, will it last?
The Salt of Tears is presented in French with English subtitles.
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