
Alix's Pictures
Les photos d'Alix
1980
Synopsis
The photographer Alix Cléo-Roubaud talks with Boris, the son of director Jean Eustache. She shows him a series of photographs and explains her intentions, the context, and the people depicted. Little by little, her commentary drifts away from the images…
Editorial
In Jean Eustache’s César-winning short, his art of capturing conversation is interleaved with an experiment in perception. Revealing how description might twist photographic truth, Alix’s Pictures unlatches words from being faithful to images, and submits to vertiginous dissonance.
