7 Chapters, 5 Days, A 2 Room-flat with Kitchen

Face to face with Alain Cavalier in which the filmmaker unravels the small incandescent thread which links his work: his early films (luminous, grave, light) with stars (Delon, Deneuve) to his last film (luminous, grave, light) with a single anonymous person for subject. Distance covered from maturity to youth which is in perfect harmony with Matisse´s words: “I am all I have seen.” (J. P. Limousin) Filmography of Alain Cavalier: “L´insoumis” (1964) – “Mise à sac” (1967) – “La Chamade” (1968) – “Le plein de super” (1975) – “Martin et Léa” (1978) – “Ce répondeur ne prend pas de messages” (1978) – “Un étrange voyage” (1980) – “Thérèse” (1986) – “24 portraits” (1988-91) – “Libera me” (1993) 60 odd documentaries on “Film Makers of our Time” filmed between 1964 en 1971 constitute the only documents on directors such as Renoir, John Ford, Pasolini, Walsh, Buñuel, Dreyer and many others who have left us, but whose works shine on like stars, centuries after their disappearance. In 1988, the series by Janine Bazin and André S. Labarthe was reprogrammed under the name of “The Cinema of our Time”, with the double objective of presenting, restored, the most outstanding films from the original series and of adding new filmed portraits on contemporary filmmakers. As if, in this realm of shadows which we call the Cinema, Pasolini reached out to Nanni Moretti, John Ford to Martin Scorsese and Renoir to his numerous descendants, from Rivette to Chabrol and Rohmer.