La Naissance De L’Amour (The Birth of Love)
1993, NR, 94 min.
Directed by Philippe Garrel, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lou Castel, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Johanna Ter Steege, Dominique Reymond, Marie-Paule Laval.

French cinema stalwart Philippe Garrel has been making films since the Sixities, usually examining issues os male intimacy and existence. In La Naissance de L’Amour, Garrel turns his attention to the lives of two middle-aged men who are living out entanglements of their own making. New Wave icons Lou Castel and Jean-Pierre Léaud are cast in the leads, the black-and-white cinematography is by Raoul Coutard (Breathless, Shoot the Piano Player), and the music is by John Cale.

This article appears in November 22 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.