Irene

In this film Alain Cavalier tells of Irène, his wife. Irène Tunc was an actress and died in a road accident in 1972. Cavalier goes through notebooks from years back, returns to the places where they were together, and carries the camera in his own hand. The film is built like a diary; the shoot is a one person affair. The account looks at how remembering works as much as at grief itself. That a person who has been lost cannot be brought back by words is the real matter of the film. Across the eighty three minutes what is on screen is mostly everyday things. Alain Cavalier’s French film was completed in 2009.