Merci d’être venu – Works and Days

24 May, 2026

At nearly 95, French filmmaker Alain Cavalier is still making films. A perfect counterpoint to a Cannes selection increasingly shaped by financial pressures, Merci d’être venu offers a reminder that cinema can still emerge from something as modest as a handheld camera.

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Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.