On January 13, 1986, Bernard Latarjet, the general delegate of the Cinémathèque française, welcomes Wim Wenders, the first director invited to the programs of the institution's fiftieth anniversary. Wenders presents his film "The American Friend" (1977), dedicated to Henri Langlois. Ten years earlier, as the guest recalls, he was shooting the film shown that day. Twenty years earlier, he had his daily seat in the second row of the Chaillot theater.