Alain Cavalier Movies

A man repaints his apartment. Through objects, photos, drawings he plunges back into his past. His future seems so dark that he ends up painting the...

A filmmaker meets a woman. Delicately, he starts videoing moments of their life together. He slowly realises he’s not storing memories, but...

An American sculptor, passioned by literature, comes to Paris to perfect his art, but ends up with barely no money, and to survive has to sell The...

Variations of the three portraits of the movie L'amitié.

Each morning, Bartabas works with his favorite horse, Caravage. They share a silent conversation in which they guide each other. Will they reach a...

Léon : This morning, Léon the shoe-repairer puts up a sign in his store that he's managed for forty-six years : "Closing down in two...

Through the public and private toilets that he has enjoyed filming over fifteen years, Alain Cavalier evokes our daily lives which are less trivial...

Philippe : An actress, a member of the Académie française, a boxer, an actor... Philippe, an all-round athlete of the televised...

A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.

"These portraits are encounters I wanted to be kept from oblivion, even if it is only while you are watching them. They are women who work, who have...

"I have been lucky enough to be able to film the cleaning and restoration work on a painting by Pierre Bonnard: Nu dans la baignoire. I completely...

“I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain. Filming that affection today...

"These portraits are encounters I wanted to be kept from oblivion, even if it is only while you are watching them. They are women who work, who have...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.

Alain Cavalier's contribution to 2009's Haiku project