Les couleurs du temps (Ile de France), Circa 2024

Cédric Klapisch   Famous Artists

Director, screenwriter and producer Cédric Klapisch is nowadays a reference in French cinema.

In 1995 he directed Le Péril jeune, a cult film that met with both public and critical success. With Chacun cherche son chat and Un Air de famille - César for Best Screenplay - he established his popularity in France.

But it's in the 2000s and with L'Auberge Espagnol, the first part of his trilogy followed by Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes) and Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois) that Cédric Klapisch is internationally recognized as a major director of contemporary French cinema.

Passionate about images, the artist has a particular attachment to photography, a real starting point for his films. In 2014, the Galerie Cinéma exhibited for the first time Paris-New-York, a selection of photographs that inspired the film Casse-tête chinois.

In February 2017, Cédric Klapisch returned to the Galerie Cinéma to present Nature humaine, a photographic work around the presence and absence of man in nature, an exhibition also linked to cinema since it concerns location photographs for his film Ce qui nous lie.

From the streets of Paris and New York to the landscapes of Burgundy, we find in the images of the photographer the same gaze of the director who, like the characters of his films, observes the world through windows, always able to capture a certain form of loneliness, and transforming banality into beauty.