I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar (J'entends Plus La Guitare) (1991)
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100% of critics liked it
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59% of users liked it
(150 ratings)
As a young man, Gerard was in a relationship with Marianne, a woman he called the love of his life, someone he would love even beyond the veils of death. However, somehow he drifted out of his relationship with her, though they were occasionally in touch with one another. Many relationships later,… More As a young man, Gerard was in a relationship with Marianne, a woman he called the love of his life, someone he would love even beyond the veils of death. However, somehow he drifted out of his relationship with her, though they were occasionally in touch with one another. Many relationships later, he is now married and has children by a wonderfully solid and nurturing woman (whom he is not faithful to). When he hears of the death of his first love, it causes him to reevaluate his relationships, and he realizes that Marianne was indeed the one great love of his life. Only his own lack of a real center caused him to lose that precious relationship. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Philippe Garrel
- Written By
- Philippe Garrel
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Aug 29, 1991 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Nathan Lee, Village Voice
Raw, rueful, and piercingly alert, a film of tremendous formal instinct and cogent human truth, J'entends is an oblique memoir of the filmmaker's relationship to Nico (Steege) -- and a testament to the elusive genius of a postwar French master.
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V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Garrel buffs, of which there are many, won't want to miss this one. Other viewers should decide based on their tolerance for talky, contemplative but rewarding cinema.
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A.O. Scott, New York Times
Like the ghostly music its title evokes, this film's meanings are both elusive and haunting.
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Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
A film that purposefully avoids plot and character conventions, that will transport some viewers into a reverie and drive others to boredom and befuddlement.
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David Fear, Time Out New York
Both a tribute and a pitiless autopsy of a couple's self-destructive tango.
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Cast
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Benoit Regent
as Gerard
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Johanna ter Steege
as Marianne
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Yann Collette
as Martin
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Mireille Perrier
as Lola
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Anouk Grinberg
as Adrienne
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Philippe Morier-Genoud
as The Stepbrother
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Brigitte Sy
as Aline
