Artaud

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word. Meanwhile, Prevel divides his time between Jany, his blond, young, drug-hazed mistress, and Rolande, his dark-haired, long-suffering wife, who has a child during this time. Cruelty, neglect, poverty, egoism, madness, and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank.

Pour Nietzsche et Artaud, la cruauté caractérise l'économie générale du monde et de la vie. Contre sa perversion, dans notre culture de la dette et de la culpabilité, ils tentent d'en retrouver l'expression la plus originaire et découvrent la primauté du sacré sur les dieux et du tragique sur la tragédie. …

En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud / My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud - by Gerard Mordillat (1993)

May, 1946, in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud, the actor, artist, and writer just released from a mental asylum. Over ten months, we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his "theatre of cruelty" to his semi-friendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word.