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b'This year\\u2019s Rendezvous with French Cinema festival (March 2-12), Film at Lincoln Center\\u2019s annual showcase of contemporary French filmmaking, was something of a Louis Garrel convention\\u2014the French actor and director appeared in three movies in the lineup. He directed and stars in The Innocent, a comedy inspired by his own life, about a young man whose mother marries a heist robber newly released from prison. He also stars along with his sisters, Esther and Lena Garrel, in their father Philippe Garrel\\u2019s Silver Bear\\u2013winning new feature, The Plough, a melancholic, understated drama about a family of puppeteers grappling with the decline of their patriarch and their traditions. And Louis appears as the theater director Patrice Ch\\xe9reau in Valeria Bruni Tedeschi\\u2019s Forever Young, about a group of young initiates at Les Amandiers, a famous acting school in Paris. \\n\\nLast week, FC Co-Deputy Editor called up Louis on Zoom\\u2014while he was in the middle of a shoot for a film about Antoine de Saint-Exup\\xe9ry, author of The Little Prince\\u2014for a conversation about the autobiographical inspirations of all three films, the differences between his and his father\\u2019s directing styles, their collaboration with the legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere, and more.'