Rendez-vous chez Lacan

This film by Gérard Miller offers insight into the work and personality of Jacques Lacan, whom many regard as the greatest psychoanalyst since Freud. Through the testimonies of his patients, students, and relatives, the film explores his legacy beyond the myths and controversies surrounding him. Born in the early twentieth century into an upper-middle-class Catholic family, Lacan was trained as a psychiatrist and possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of culture. He counted among his friends such figures as Picasso, Levi-Strauss, and Sartre. A major theoretician and practitioner, he remains one of the most modern, challenging, and provocative psychoanalysts. Director Gérard Miller met Lacan through his brother, Jacques-Alain, one of Lacan's most faithful students, who married Miller's daughter Judith. Their close and intense relationship makes this film particularly exceptional.