Mohamed El Khatib
Alain Cavalier Conversation
[Theatre]
The film-maker Alain Cavalier and the author and director Mohamed El Khatib have put the art of conversation on a pedestal, in the literary sense of the term. They have chosen to invite the public to a series of rendez-vous taking place on four separate occasions over the course of the Autumn.
What can we say about this most unlikely encounter, occasioned by the purchase of a camera bought in error? Was it made to be? Alain Cavalier, a successful film-maker during the period 1960-1970 – Le Combat dans l’île with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Romy Schneider, L’Insoumis with Alain Delon, and La Chamade with Catherine Deneuve and Michel Piccoli – has dedicated himself, camera in hand, to documentary film making, or the cinema of the real. Mohamed El Khatib, for his part, has a penchant for inviting real life onstage. He confronts theatre with different mediums – cinéma, installations, newspapers – in order to observe the friction that comes from the way they interact with each other. Together, in this hour-long performance, they open themselves up to a methodical auscultation of the various dreams that they have had, and which still play upon their minds. This conversation, from both sides of the Mediterranean, deals with subjects as wide and varied as desire, politics, colonial relations and... football. It forms a micro-history of two very different paths in life that cross each other.
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Running time: 1h
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Running time: 1h
