Freddy Buache

Freddy Buache (1924-2019) was a Swiss writer, critic and film historian. In 1950, he co-founded the Cinémathèque Suisse. He directed the institution from 1951 to 1996. Buache wrote essays, poetry and numerous publications on cinema, including books on Luis Buñuel, the Nouvelle Vague and, most of all, national cinemas: Swiss, German, Italian and English cinema, two parts on French film in the 1960s and 70s, and three chronological volumes on American cinema. His lifelong friendship with Jean-Luc Godard resulted in an exchange of film letters, Godard’s Lettre à Freddy Buache (1986), which was followed by a film Buache provided the voice-over for: Lettre à Jean-Luc Godard (Annie Aubergier, Nicolas Costanzo, Pierric Favret & Sarah Richit, 2007), a collaborative project with four filmmakers of a younger generation. In 2012, Fabrice Aragno, who works with Jean-Luc Godard, compiled Freddy Buache, le cinéma, showcasing a day in the life of the director of the Cinémathèque.

Freddy Buache, 1997
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À la fin de Lou n’a pas dit non, Anne-Marie Miéville exprimait un vœu : « L’amour ne sera plus le commerce d’un homme et d’une femme, mais celui d’une humanité avec une autre. » Ce vœu, qu’elle rêve de voir s’accomplir dans notre monde qui, chaque jour, s’en éloigne plus sûrement, elle tente d’en comprendre le sens, la force prodigieuse et les effrayantes limites, dans Nous sommes tous encore ici, dont le titre, en lui-même, impose malgré tout une confiante conviction que précisent à la fois, d’éminents philosophes donnés comme experts chargés d’un débroussaillage de la question et la vie d’un couple chargé d’en opérer, jour après jour, la démonstration.

Freddy Buache, 1997
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23.10.2019
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At the end of Lou n’a pas dit non, Anne-Marie Miéville expressed a wish: “Love will be a relationship that is meant to be between one human being and another, no longer one that flows from man to woman.” In Nous sommes tous encore ici, she tries to understand the meaning, the tremendous power and the frightening limits of this wish, the realization of which she dreams of seeing in our world. In itself and despite everything, the film title establishes a certain confidence which is explained both by renowned philosophers as experts responsible for clearing up the issue and the life of a couple charged with performing its daily demonstration.