Break the chain

You can bring me up, don’t you bring me down?

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Louis Garrel’s first interview for The Dreamers.

Yes, like a zoo animal. Give them a puzzle, a treat, a toy, anything you can think of! Rattle the bars of their cage and give them something to do!

Masculin Féminin (1966) Directed By: Jean-Luc Godard

Bande à part // Band Of Outsiders (1964, France) Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard

EVA GREEN as VANESSA IVES (PENNY DREADFUL, 2014–2016)

DEVA CASSEL AS ANGELICA SEDARA Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (2025)

▸ i was left to my own devices. ▸ many days fell away with nothing to show. ▸ but if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all? ▸ if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you've been here before? ▸ how am i gonna be an optimist about this? ▸ we were caught up and lost in all of our vices. ▸ where do we begin, the rubble or our sins? ▸ these are the things we lost in the fire. ▸ we sat and made a list of all the things that we had. ▸ i was the match and you were the rock. maybe we started this fire. ▸ we were born with nothing and we sure as hell have nothing now. ▸ do you understand that we will never be the same again? ▸ the future's in our hands. ▸ i don't wanna talk about it. ▸ you said you always had my back. ▸ these little things define you forever. ▸ all this bad blood here, won't you let it dry? ▸ if we're only ever looking back, we will drive ourselves insane. ▸ as the friendship goes, resentment grows. ▸ we will walk our different ways. ▸ i don't wanna hear about the bad blood anymore. ▸ these words are all we have. ▸ we'll be talking. ▸ you lean towards despair. any given opportunity you're there. ▸ what is there to gain when you're always falling off the fence that way? ▸ i don't want them. ▸ they pull me back and i surrender to the memories i run from. ▸ we have paved these streets with moments of defeat. ▸ i won't show my face here anymore. ▸ in my mind, it's like you haunt these streets. ▸ passing through, i think i see you in the shapes of other women. ▸ all that's left behind is a shadow on my mind. ▸ a shadow cast upon the wall is a silhouette and nothing more. ▸ all that you desired when you were a child was to be old. now that you are here, suddenly you fear you've lost control. ▸ do you like the person you've become? ▸ look who's digging their own grave. ▸ you'll drink yourself to death. ▸ look who makes their own bed lies right down within it and what will you have left? ▸ icarus is flying too close to the sun and icarus' life, it has only just begun. ▸ it scares me half to death. ▸ look out to the future but it tells you nothing so take another breath. ▸ you put up your defences when you leave. you leave because you're certain of who you want to be. ▸ when oblivion is calling out your name, you always take it further than i ever can. ▸ when you play it hard and i try to follow you there, it's not about control but i turn back when i see where you go. ▸ are you going to leave a path to trace? ▸ when all of your flaws and all of my flaws are laid out one by one, we pick ourselves undone. ▸ there's a hole in my soul, i can't fill it. ▸ you have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve and i have always buried them deep beneath the ground. ▸ dig them up, let's finish what we started. ▸ all of your flaws and all of my flaws, when they have been exhumed we'll see that we need them to be who we are. without them, we'd be doomed. ▸ look at the wonderful mess that we made. ▸ you thought the lions were bad. well, they tried to kill my brothers. ▸ for every king that died, they would crown another. ▸ it's harder than you think telling dreams from one another. ▸ felled in the night by the ones you think you love, they will come for you. ▸ oh, to see what it means to be free of the shackles and the dream that you claim to see. ▸ the night was all you had. ▸ you ran into the night from all you had. ▸ you ran into the night, you can't be found. ▸ this is your heart. can you feel it? ▸ what a year and what a night, what terrifying final sights. ▸ how am i gonna get myself back home? ▸ we are the last people standing at the end of the night. ▸ we are the greatest pretenders. ▸ this is just another night and we've had many of them. ▸ the birds are mocking me. ▸ there's an albatross around your neck, all the things you've said and the things you've done. can you carry it with no regrets? ▸ can you stand the person you've become?