Alain Cavalier


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Alain Cavalier was born in Vendôme, France in 1931. After studying History, he went to the French film school IDHEC and then worked as Louis Malle’s assistant. He began directing with the short “Un Américan” in 1956. Because his films addressed contemporary political problems, Cavalier ran into difficulties with the censors, notably for his first two features “Le Combat dans l'île” (1961), portraying a fascist, and “L'Insoumis” (1964), which called into question the Algerian war. Having mostly made dramas, he then turned to more experimental filmmaking between documentary and fiction. With “Un Etrange Voyage”, Cavalier received recognition, later conclusively confirmed with “Thérèse”, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes and six Césars in 1986. In 2004, he released “Le Filmeur”, a film diary shot over ten years in which he played and commented on his own life, before going on to direct “Irène” (2009) and “Pater” (2011). In 2017, he directed “Six portraits XL”, adding to the rich and generous portrait gallery he began thirty years earlier. In 2019, he made “Être vivant et le savoir”, in which he follows the death of his friend, the author Emmanuèle Bernheim.

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