Both a film theorist and a film curator, the author of books such as Le Temps exposé. Le cinéma de la salle au musée (Cahiers du cinéma, 2002) and Le cinéma, un art plastique (Yellow Now, 2013), and the curator of seminal exhibitions such as Hitchcock et les arts (2001), Le regard d’Antonioni (2013-15) and Le Musée imaginaire d’Henri Langlois (2014), Dominique Païni discusses in this interview the principles that have guided his activity as a film curator, focusing on the role played by comparisons, resemblances, and analogies.