EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – Fifty years after his Palme d’Or at Cannes, the director of A man and a woman will chair the evening of 26 February. He wants it to be “in the image of his films, a hymn to life and cinema.”
Claude Lelouch is a man happy. It will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Palme d’Or A man and a woman in the shoes of a President of the Cesar Awards ceremony. This is Alain Terzian, president of the Academy of arts and techniques of cinema, who offered this mandate, but very ephemeral honorific.
Dynamic as ever, “the eternal postpone the 7th art “as he loves himself to be named, wants the party on February 26 is a hymn to life and cinema, his greatest passion.
LE FIGARO. – How do you become president of the César ceremony
LELOUCH CLAUDE?. – (Smile). Alain Terzian came to me to offer me to chair the evening. He knew how to be persuasive: “If there is someone who loves movies, it’s you.” I defended myself. A little. But of course I agreed because he knew how to flatter my ego. And I is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of A man and a woman . A symbol.
You’re not spiteful. You chair the Cesar when you have never received Best Director …
I was very young a chance to win the Palme d’Or and Oscar then Golden Globes … I can not complain. I am a spoiled child. My life is really the route of a spoiled filmmaker.
My players had them in my place. Girardot, Belmondo, Luchini, this is not nothing. It’s a game, and you have to be good player. I am a good loser. It’s been 78 years that I toy with life, and it’s not easy for people in the profession, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard, to vote for people from the profession. Very often, we choose the person who is the least jealous (laughs).
“Today, we have moved from a world where people were crying for a world of people who whine. Before they laughed. Now we chuckles. “
Do you print your” paw “at the ceremony of February 26?
No, that would pretentious. You know I never stopped being a reporter. I tried through my films to make people enjoy life the way I like. I love life and all its faults, I mean all its faults. Today, we have moved from a world where people were crying for a world of people who whine. Before they laughed. Now we sneers. But I’m an optimist, so I can give people the desire to better enjoy this, it will already be positive. It is my only ambition.
sometimes criticized for being boring Caesar. How do you see the evening of February 26?
Me, I rely heavily on Florence Foresti. It is this extraordinary woman who will run the show. Otherwise, it is necessary that the acknowledgments are as short as possible. The only certainty is that things never turn out as they imagined them. If it’s a little more spiritual it is the beginning of honor, if a little less plane-plane, this is the beginning of the crap … As for me, I must submit myself to that I ask my players the greatest possible spontaneity. And then I’ll make the apology of cinema, cinema that we will see on the big screen. We must defend his passion.
You have worked with virtually every major French actors, but never with Gérard Depardieu, yet named this year’s César for Valley of love . Why?
(laughs) … It is not too late, you know. Basically, I’d like us to do a ensemble.Tout film is possible, as long as he is alive and I!
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