LE PARADIS
Alain Cavalier

O.V. French

Alain Cavalier is fascinated by the idea of paradise, and finds it on Earth in the hidden beauties of everyday life. Filmed when “love is acute,” full of light, tenderness and pleasure, Le Paradis is a love letter to reality, to the beauty of the people and things Cavalier films, to the minor miracles of creation and the tenderness of memories. Somewhere between Portraits and Le filmeur, the Bible and The Odyssey, the director achieves such simplicity in cinema as to seem magical, refining...