Michel Deville, mœurs et mystères

Consisting of prints preserved in our collections, this cycle pays tribute to the French filmmaker Michel Deville, who died earlier this year. A contemporary of the New Wave, he nevertheless evolved in parallel with it, giving free rein to his own desires and intuitions for cinema. He made directing a game, putting stylistic effects and formal gambles at the service of stories that are fragments of humanity, touching on all genres to better capture the eroticism, pretenses and ambiguities that underlie the interactions between people.