“Our generation is born of unease, of hopelessness. Those of us born in the postwar era believed we could change the world. We made a revolution with the purest intentions and the deepest convictions, but it was aborted. It wasn't successful, but a failure, a frustration, a tragedy. And no one emerges unscathed from such a defeat at 20. Jean Eustache committed suicide in 1981, Chantal Akerman two and a half years ago… Some of us remain working, like Jacques Doillon, Benoît Jacquot, and myself, but May '68 marked us deeply. Later, we tried the hippie movement, which was an extraordinary pacifist revolution, and we confronted the horror of violence with LSD experiments, a drug that did nothing but calm us. The truth is that those of us who participated in May '68 were sent to the army or committed to psychiatric hospitals: brutal state repression for wanting a more just world. […] Before May By '68 I had already filmed several movies, all very free, risky, experimental. In 1969 the police arrested me (I was barely 21 years old) and I was subjected to seven electroshock sessions over three weeks. Antonin Artaud had more than 40 sessions, but those seven, all that psychiatric torture, changed me completely, made me relinquish my freedom. When I got out, I went back to work, but I was a wreck. From then on I was much less provocative, then I became a father in my thirties, and that shift is already noticeable in The Inner Scar. I went from being an avant-garde artist to an artist who knows the limits of what he can do. Freedom has limits.” - Philippe Garrel's statements at BAFICI 2018.