Alain Cavalier

Alain Cavalier

Cannes

CANNES 2019: LIVING AND KNOWING YOU ARE ALIVE BY ALAIN CAVALIER

By Mónica Delgado

There’s probably no film as intimate in this whole edition of Cannes 2019 like this work about mourning and goodbye. Alain Cavalier, with over eighty years, delivers a film about the last days of writer and script writer Emmanuele Bernheim, a friend of the author with whom he planned to make a film about her memories. This film diary, in the visual style of the most recent Cavalier, starts with reflections about the transit to the next life, and the narrations on how he accompanied his best friend Anne, who he met at 16, in a process of assisted death. And those images that come up through this tale in first person of the filmmaker, will accompany the whole development of the film, made in an artisan way with a very low budget.

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Cannes

CANNES 2019: LIVING AND KNOWING YOU ARE ALIVE DE ALAIN CAVALIER

Por Mónica Delgado

Probablemente no hay film más íntimo en toda esta edición de Cannes 2019 que esta obra sobre el luto y la despedida. Alain Cavalier, de más de ochenta años, entrega un film sobre los últimos días de la escritora y guionista Emmanuele Bernheim, con quien tuvo una amistad extensa y con quien planeaba hacer una película sobre sus memorias.

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Main Articles

ON Hi-8/DIGITAL AND THE INTIMATE: THE FILM DIARIES OF ALAIN CAVALIER

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

When we watch the first minutes of La Recontre (1996), it seems that we’re confronted with a revolution: digital cinema has merged with the home movie, and they both have reached a new narrative language in which the immediate recollection of images through the analogue system provides the filmmaker with the immediacy and urgency of what needs to be captured.

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BAFICI

BAFICI 2012: PATER DE ALAIN CAVALIER

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

It’s been a while since Alain Cavalier chose digital video (DV format) to shoot intimate personal mosaics, diaries of immense depth dealing with life, death, and things between.

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