Alex Barbier a dit adieu à la bande dessinée et a intitulé son dernier livre La dernière bande. Il se consacre désormais exclusivement à la peinture. Et ce film aurait pu s’intituler La dernière toile, tant il fait figure, a posteriori bien entendu, de testament. En quelques jours, le film met à jour autant la conception progressive de cet ultime tableau, réalisé à bout de bras, que les rituels qui prévalent à son exécution et que les questionnements de l’artiste sur sa peinture, sur son œuvre passée et sur sa vie. Il met aussi à jour un singulier jeu de miroir entre le créateur (qu’il soit peintre ou réalisatrice) et son sujet...

Alex Barbier gave up on comics and has entitled his latest book The Last Comic. He now devotes himself exclusively to painting. And this film could have been entitled The Last Canvas, since it appears, a posteriori of course, as a testament. In just a few days, the film brings to light both the progressive conception of this last painting, created at arm's length, and the rituals that prevailed during its execution, as well as the artist's questions about his painting, his past work and his life. It also brings to light a singular interplay between the creator (whether a painter or director) and his or her subject...