Faces: Garrel’s Les Hautes Solitudes at the Metrograph

Les Hautes Solitudes (1974)Directed by Philippe GarrelFebraury 24-March 2 at the Metrograph
Philippe Garrel’s 1974 silent film Les hautes solitudes is 80 minutes, overwhelmingly of interior close-ups and medium shots of four people. Primary focus Jean Seberg dictated the terms of her own footage, suggesting scenarios to play out, sometimes to Garrel’s alarm: a scene in which she gobbles pills in a suicide attempt so spooked the director he stopped filming. Seberg would indeed kill he