French Actor Clėmenti's Prison Memoirs "Not a Warning, but a Wailing"

A new English translation, to coincide with the MoMA's retrospective of his contribution to Art House Cinema, hones in on the enigmatic actor's call to abolish the prison system.

By Jean Marc Ah-Sen,

Pierre Clėmenti, the enigmatic French actor and director whose roles in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, Luis Buñuel’s Belle Du Jour, and Phillipe Garrel’s The Virgin’s Bed made him one of the most recognizable talents in the world of art house cinema, was arrested in 1972 on suspicion of drug possession charges while residing in Ital…