Regular Lovers

Garrel’s leisurely, bittersweet revisitation of May ‘68 and its discontents, which won him the directing prize at Venice, is something of a pensive answer-song to Bertolucci’s silly sexfest ‘The Dreamers’, especially in casting one of its stars – who just happens to be Garrel’s lookalike son, Louis – in the lead role. Perhaps a temporary moratorium on les événements can be declared for cineastes d’un certain age, though the film does throw off sparks in several of its set pieces, especially the enchanting group-dance interlude scored to the Kinks’ ‘This Time Tomorrow’.