"In Garrel there is a poetic invention that none of the great specialists of this type of cinema, be it Godard, Wenders, Duras or Bresson, has achieved: a kind of beauty of pure cinematographic time that is extraordinary and a unique case that nobody has surpassed (...). The fact of giving oneself completely, of interpreting one's role, which in others would seem complacent, has in him a sincerity that deeply moves me. In other words: he has something that brings him closer to the kind of cinema that takes pleasure in pure images, but with him this becomes deep and original poetry." Eric Rohmer
