Juste avant la nuit - Michel Bouquet(2022)

Juste avant la nuit is a documentary portrait of Michel Bouquet, the legendary French actor, filmed in isolation by the sea. As tides rhythm the days, Bouquet reflects on the writers and playwrights who shaped his life and art—Pinter, Ionesco, Strindberg, Camus—figures central to the Theatre of the Absurd. Reality dissolves for him; only fiction remains vital. Through conversations and recollection, the film traces how these great authors made Bouquet their reference point, their muse and interpreter. In these nights of solitude facing the ocean, he conjures the twilight of his own thinking, revealing the truths of an extraordinary career spent embodying the fractured, absurdist vision of modern drama.