THE 58th QUINZAINE IN THE COMPANY OF ALAIN GUIRAUDIE
At the heart of a bucolic forest, a man walks naked among the trees. His body is massive, earthly, fleshly. Has he just feasted? Is he searching for shelter for some coming reverie? Lost in a wondrous world, he could be a figure from a folktale. A bard, perhaps, wandering along in song after gathering dourougne — the wild plant from which, in these lands, a drink known as brigoule is brewed.
The image trembles with a slight blur; the foliage conceals what it half reveals. Between the visible and the hidden, desire circulates in this photograph by Alain Guiraudie, taken from his latest series exhibited at the Crèvecœur gallery in Paris. As in his films, nature becomes a space of desire, storytelling, and imaginative wandering: a place for sensual strolls and metamorphoses, a territory where reality is tinged with mythology.
After That Old Dream That Moves, No Rest for the Braves, and The King of Escape, all revealed at the Directors’ Fortnight, that welcomes back Alain Guiraudie, one of the most singular voices in contemporary French cinema, the author of seven feature films and four novels.
Pas de Repos pour le Braves (2003)
King of Escape (2009)
Stranger by the Lake (2013)
Staying Vertical (2016)
Nobody’s Hero (2022)
Misericordia (2024)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT 2026