During a year, they would meet and film each other. The filmmaker and the actor, the President and his prime minister, Alain Cavalier and Vincent Lindon. In Pater, you will see them in real life and in the fiction that they invented together.
Acting
Lindon and Cavalier's genuine decades-long friendship bleeds through.
Direction
Cavalier dismantles documentary/fiction walls with reckless charm.
Writing
Dialogue so natural you'll swear it wasn't written.
Director
Alain Cavalier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cavalier and Lindon had already collaborated on 1996's Le Plein de super, making Pater a 15-year friendship distilled to celluloid.
The film premiered at Cannes 2011, where audiences famously couldn't tell which scenes were documentary—Cavalier refused to clarify.
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