Country: France, USA
Year: 2023
Duration: 107'
Barbet Schroeder portrays his friend Ricardo Cavallo, who devotes his life to painting. From Buenos Aires to Finistère, via Paris, this film is an invitation to dive into the history of painting but also to discover the life of this man who, with simplicity and humility, has always been fully committed, even to the point of passing on his passion to the children of his village.
Biography
film director
Barbet Schroeder
(Teheran, Iran, 1941), a director and producer of Swiss origins, worked for Cahiers du Cinéma and L’Air de Paris and founded Les Films du Losange in 1963. Over the course of his prolific career, he made Maîtresse (1975), then moved to America where he made Barfly (1987), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he was nominated for a Best Director Oscar, and Single White Female (1992). In 2000 he made Our Lady of the Assassins and in 2007, the documentary film Terror’s Advocate.
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Barbet Schroeder. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Victoria Clay Mendoza. EDITING: Julie Lena. MUSIC: Hans Appelqvist. SOUND: Elie Peyssard. CAST: Ricardo Cavallo. COPRODUCERS: Lionel Baier, Régine Vial, Charles Gillibert. PRODUCTION: Bande à part Films, Les Films du Losange. COPRODUCTION: RTS Radio Suisse Romande.
CONTACT: Les Films du Losange sales@filmsdulosange.fr
