Barney Wilen, the Rest of Your Life

A film-letter to the jazz sax player, Barney Wilen. At the age of eighteen, Wilen was playing alongside Miles Davis. He owed his fame as much to his brilliant appearances as to his mysterious disappearances. He is central to Loustal’s cult comic book La Note bleue. Those who knew him well, be it Marie Moor, his last companion, Loustal, Archie Shepp, Laurent de Wilde or Philippe Garrel, endeavour to pinpoint an artist who constantly escapes any attempt at arid definition or labelling.