Alain Cavalier

After studying History, he entered the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques in Paris (IDHEC). He collaborated with Louis Malle in Elevator for the Scaffold and Lovers. His first feature films were Le combat dans l'île (1961) and La mort no deserta (1964). He began a career in quality commercial cinema, working with actors such as Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Alain Delon. His style was gradually refined over the years in the fiction field, reaching his famous Thérèse (1986), his greatest success, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes and six César Awards, and following that path in Libera me (1993), a film without dialogue. In 1979 he began another vein of his cinema, more experimental and autobiographical, with Ce répondeur ne prend pas de messages, an approach that would dominate his cinema from the 21st century onwards, with the arrival of light video cameras. Intimate films such as Le filmeur (2004), Irène (2009), Le Paradis (2014) or Etre Vivant et Le Savoir, presented at Cannes, are interspersed with games such as the one made with Vincent Lindon in Pater (2011).

Festival de Cine de Sevilla