Nina Companeez, RAM – The Obs

Image of the cloche hat flottan t on the crest of tall grass. At 73, on the set of “In Search of Lost Time,” Nina Companeez, high to a grasshopper, zigzagged through the alfalfa at a rate of cartoon. At his heels, three guys who lengthened stride pulling the tongue. “ It’s true, I can still take down a group of boys of twenty ,” she boasted, a few months later in early 2011 in his Paris apartment, at the dawn of the diffusion of this television movie in two parts, on France 2. “ This is probably due to my mixed blood: I have a total energy ,” she said. Adapter “The Search”? Not afraid. Losey and Visconti could well have abandoned Nina Companeez had gone after. “ They, they wanted to make a masterpiece. It is far from my case “, she amused. The ambition of the director? To inspire viewers to read Proust and firing a hat this awesome youth boyfriend.

The little madeleine Nina Companeez was doped a Elnett hairspray smell to Proustian irony:

I was reading “The Search” at age 17, the hairdresser, under the helmet curlers and I esclaffais

em>. ” > And remember. “ Himself writhing with laughter reading passages to friends This infuriates me that has made an intellectual myth, inaccessible, whereas in him, everything is feeling and humor . ” Malice in everything. That could be the motto of the director who had attacked the monument after Raoul Ruiz and Volker Schlondorff. Result, it was rediscovered on the small screen through his eyes, rushes to an unforeseeable text, the ferocity of the Proustian humor, endless wealth of impressions and fantasies … Until this kissing scene where the language of Albertine attempts an approach between the walled lips Marcel, the narrator of “The Search”. A blush Rocco Siffredi “ I lick you, you lick me: it’s very mouth, Proust, we confirmed Nina Companeez It changes a little!. It.” Boom-crac- crack, “we know by heart all the gentlemen who saw the scene in the editing room, were upset …” “

” It’s so hard to recover memories ”

What makes echoed by the director in Proust’s work? The past, the moment that fled the already over history. Reciting a passage the narrator meets the daughter of Gilberte: “ Riante formed the same year that I had lost, she looked like my youth,” she slipped : “ Each time, I have tears. Who has not felt that? For the birthday of my twelve years I was in tears, inconsolable to be already there . “Before embarking on the saga Proust, the director had gone up the thread of its own history with its previous fresco, “Here comes the storm”, the beautiful title could serve as chorus many of his fictions. It followed the tumultuous fate of a Jewish family Russian – his -. through history and Europe We clung to the exile of his grandmother hunted by the Russian Revolution, the flight of his parents to escape Nazi persecution

Nina Companeez was, herself, a survivor child of war, hidden in the year of its five-year His family sagas are populated GameCafé, lulled klezmer and almost always torn by war. – be it that of 14-18 in “Les Dames Coast” or the French Revolution in “The Great Caper.” His films make life for expensive voice fell silent, as wrote Verlaine, his favorite poet. “ It’s so hard to recover memories. At the cemetery, I feel nothing, she confided. But when I fall, on television, on a movie in black and generic white, speckled with the film, the character of the initials … I have a soft spot. I meet with enjoyment and suffering, when Dad ( screenwriter Jacques Companeez, Ed) made films and where I myself was a little girl. “

” Do not become an old crust, never! “

It s’ .! ventured to ask him the secret of his bold “But it’s just to have lived there thirty years ago, I would not have been able to adapt Proust: I was too romantic . “Yet the banter she wrote, in the sixties, alongside filmmaker Michel Deville, were already woven lightweight and cruelty (” Tonight or Never “,” Benjamin or memory of a virgin “,” Raphael or debauched “). As for the romantic comedies of the duo, all charm and impertinence (“Adorable liar”, “The Bear and the Doll”), they were successful. But Nina Companeez also spoke without complex failures: “ When I started to realize alone, I did not know who I was.” Colinot kit-shirt “was a total flop.” As on wheels, “a worse flop.” the carpet? Certainly. But on the mat, you can always do it again, this daughter of a “ true gambler ” knew well. “ Like my father, I maintain a player with the world “.

Fan of” Mad Men “and” Modern family “

Finally, it is television that has proved to herself. She practiced with verve soap operas who pranced through the history of France, carried away by the fiery heroines and served by casting choices (Fanny Ardant, Francis Huster, Dominique Blanc, Bernard Giraudeau, Marina Hands …). In recent years, she loved the American series – “ I know of few films that rival” Mad Men. “ she thought My latest discovery is” Modern family “. I loved already “Dream on,” it ten years ago and I’m not the only one.. my friends are addicted to “In treatment” or “The White House” ” And to clarify:

Contrary to what some think the chains, we, the good women of 70, we do not want fiction plane-plane! . “

It also chatting in forums and unsheathed his Iphone faster than his shadow:” I do not want to become an old crust, never! “. Little chance. Her unconventionality gave him a head start.” I never agree, she confirmed. As a result, I have trouble to vote. I force. “In bed at night, she raged against television trays: ” When they fall to Arditi, in Ruquier, reproaching him for having made the commercial for a bank. I cry. “! Connards small species Fouquier with your revolutionary court ” “Far from blunting, it sharpened over time for Nina Companeez which chose to complete his adaptation of “The Search” in the words of Proust, he was constantly “ time to start .”