“L’Automne” by Marcel Hanoun

1972 · FR · FR/EN · 72’

“Cinema, whose raison d’être is movement, ‘L’Automne’ makes it an art of stillness. Anti-cinema in the eyes of those for whom cinema is a fight, a car chase or a western cavalcade. Another cinema for those who can see that the stillness of ‘L’Automne’ is a false stillness. These faces in close-up live with intensity. The intensity of their gaze. There is no doubt: these two pairs of eyes know how to see. We see it. We even read in these two gazes that we are, in the life of a film, at the most exciting moment for the creators: the one where, for the last time, all questions can still be asked.” -Jean Louis Bory,

THE DIRECTOR | MARCEL HANOUN

Marcel Hanoun (26 October, 1929 – 22 Sept 2012) was a photographer and journalist, as well as a filmmaker, who emerged as a director at the height of the Nouvelle Vague with Une simple histoire (A Simple History, 1958) and Le Huitième jour (The Eighth Day, 1960). Since then his work became increasingly experimental, alienating the public and some critics, but championed by those who admire his meticulous approach and personal viewpoint.