Savage Innocence

Sauvage Innocence is a film of the French realizer Philippe Garrel, turned in 2001.

Synopsis

François Mauge (Mehdi Belhaj Kacem) is a young scenario writer. His wife, Carole, died following catch of Héroïne and, marked by this disappearance, he wants to make a film to denounce this poison. The title of its film will be Sauvage Innocence , but it does not find the necessary financings with its realization. A drug trafficker which knew Carole, Chas (Michel Subor), is ready to advance this money, but wants in exchange that François makes pass the border to a heroin bag. François accepts and makes then this film to Amsterdam with the money even of the traffic that it denounces there. He met before a young actress, Lucie (Julia Faure), with which he is in love and who holds the first role in his film. But the reality joined the fiction and one attends the fall of Lucie, who also sinks it in the Toxicomanie.

Data sheet

• English Title: Wild Innocence

• original Title: Wild Innocence
• Realization: Philippe Garrel
• Scenario: Marc Cholodenko, Chilique Garrel, Philippe Garrel, Arlette Langmann
• Production: Pascal Caucheteux, Kees Kasander, Alain Sarde
• Music: Jean-Claude Director Vannier
• of the photography: Raoul Coutard
• Assembly: Francoise Hake
• Franco-Dutch Film
• Coming out date in France: 2001
• talking film in French language
• in black and white
• Kind: drama
• Lasted: 123 minutes (2h03)
• Public: all public in France

Distribution

• Mehdi Belhaj Kacem: François Mauge

• Julia Faure: Lucie
• Michel Subor: Eye
• Maurice Garrel: the father of François Mauge

Comments

The film, which introduces François like a double of Philippe Garrel, interferes several plans reality:

• Sauvage Innocence is also the title of film made by François and which one sees turning in film.
• the film made by François is autobiographical (from the point of view of François), it reflects also its current history with Lucie and the tumble of this one.
• the film (or even the films) is also largely inspired by the personal experience of Philippe Garrel who, in his youth, was consumer of drugs. One recognizes in particular behind this loved woman the shade of Nico.
• Philippe Garrel will lend to his/her own father until to the main character: it is Maurice Garrel who plays the part of the father of François.