La gaveuse, la romancière, la roulotteuse, la fleuriste, la cordonnière, la marchande de journaux, l'opticienne, la souffleuse de verre, l'illusionniste, l'accordeuse de piano, la corsetière, l'archetière, Jeannine aux fers - Parler et travailler Alain Cavalier trace les visages de femmes qu’il veut préserver de l’oubli. Ce sont des femmes qui travaillent, qui font des enfants et qui en même temps gardent un esprit d’indépendance…

La matelassière, la fileuse, la trempeuse, l'orangère, la brodeuse, la dame-lavabo, la relieuse, la bistrote, la canneuse, la repasseuse, la rémouleuse, la maître-verrier. Alain Cavalier trace les visages de femmes qu’il veut préserver de l’oubli. Ce sont des femmes qui travaillent, qui font des enfants et qui en même temps gardent un esprit d’indépendance…

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.

2002 film by Alain Cavalier

Alain is getting older. For years he has been filming his daily life: his partner Françoise, the people he meets, nature and animals, and life in all its splendour and cruelty. Having devoted his entire life to filmmaking, with the camera as an extension of his arm, he has observed the world with a poetic sense of authenticity and simplicity. Otherness, the approach of death, the power of life and the importance of others intertwine as he looks back on his life as a filmmaker and as a man, concealing nothing, and offering a vision of the universality of the human experience.

2015 film by Alain Cavalier

The mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.