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Abstract
The appeal of rebellions and insurrections lies as much in the motive of the cause defended as in the excitement generated. May ‘68 is emblematic of this sort of dual attraction on the youth it galvanized during the short-lived, yet ebullient, “events of May” of that momentous year of 1968 in conservative France. Philippe Garrel’s poetic, dream-like film Les Amants réguliers and Rita Brantalou and Philippe Bruneau’s comically satirical play Sous les pavés la plage stage in starkly contrasting moods the ups and downs of this historic upheaval as experienced by a generation of utopian-turned-disenchanted young rioters faced with what chroniclers ultimately characterized as a failed revolution.
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Laurence Enjolras
Laurence Enjolras is an Associate Professor of French at the College of the Holy Cross. A twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholar, she pursues research on contemporary French literature, culture, and film. She has published on a variety of topics pertaining to these areas and has authored Femmes écrites (Anma Libri, 1990).