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Alain Cavalier (born September 14, 1931) is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987. His upcoming film Pater is scheduled to premiere In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
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05 June 2019
Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years.
29 January 1958
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
04 February 1981
A man walks a length of railroad track, looking for his elderly mother whom he believes fell from the train at some point.
05 November 1958
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
25 January 1966
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party.
26 April 2023
“I have on occasion experienced filmmaking as an intensely shared activity. Lively friendships result and remain.
31 January 1979
A loving couple Martin and Lea have some problems with each other too.
15 November 1967
Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.
21 June 1986
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent.
07 April 1976
When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things.
26 January 1996
A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Limosin, originally aired 26 January 1996.
01 January 1958
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 New York Herald Tribune, at night, to his compatriots.
04 May 2012
Thibault de Chateauvieux - La Pie Rouge - Pascal Blaise - Marie Bornat - Miles Davis - Clint et Kylee
01 January 1988
"These portraits are encounters I wanted to be kept from oblivion, even if it is only while you are watching them.
01 January 2005
"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.
12 November 2014
Cavalier Express offers a new reading of eight short films by Alain Cavalier, conceived and presented in the form of a unique story.
19 July 2007
Through the public and private toilets that he has enjoyed filming over fifteen years, Alain Cavalier evokes our daily lives which are less trivial than they would appear.
30 June 1991
"These portraits are encounters I wanted to be kept from oblivion, even if it is only while you are watching them.
16 August 1962
The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization.
25 September 1964
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities.
30 October 1968
The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
15 June 1990
An enchanting mini-portrait of Antoinette, an 86½-year-old magician. Clad in a dress coat and white satin top hat, the elegant Parisienne performs ostensibly simple tricks with astonishing sleight-of-hand.
14 May 2026
The final episode of Alain Cavalier’s video diary. “Le Filmeur” traces his life since “Pater”: the approach of death and the beauty of life —both human and animal— intertwine with the filmmaker’s doubts and contradictions as he encounters others.
13 June 1979
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 whole apartment in black, including the windows, to absolute black.
01 January 2010
A short film made by Alain Cavalier for the 2010 dvd release of ‘Le Combat Dans L’ile’.
17 November 1993
"In this film you will see a woman's handkerchief tied around a man's wrist, a well-shaven pig's head, some adolescents who are more inventive than their elders in struggling against oppression.
07 September 1996
A filmmaker meets a woman. Delicately, he starts videoing moments of their life together. He slowly realises he’s not storing memories, but making a film.
28 October 2015
Each morning, Bartabas works with his favorite horse, Caravage. They share a silent conversation in which they guide each other.
24 October 2018
Jacquotte : Once a year, in July, on the way to vacation, Jacquotte relives her childhood for a few hours in her beloved parents' home, which has remained intact.
22 June 2011
During a year, they would meet and film each other. The filmmaker and the actor, the President and his prime minister, Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon.
22 November 2000
"If I get along well with someone, if I am attracted to what that person does, then I have an annoying tendency to desire to film that person.
25 September 2005
From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death.
28 October 2009
In a film as moving as a confession, the filmmaker portrays a veritable journey into the valley of the shadows to find Irène, his Eurydice.
01 August 2002
René, a children's theater performer, has a problem : he is a hearty eater and he weighs no less than 155 kilos.
27 October 2025
Alain Cavalier is a childlike nonagenarian, a filmmaker who turns his immediate surroundings into an escape route.
08 October 2014
"Since childhood, I've had the good fortune of going through two mini depressions of happiness, and I'm serenely awaiting the third.
17 October 2018
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 months.
01 January 1998
"Since a long time I have been linked to the painter Georges de La Tour. His paintings helped me in making my films.
01 January 1982
A movie director attemps to film the way he writes a screenplay.
08 June 2007
Joseph Morder begins to film his life with a cell phone and thus begins to realize some life-changine
