Why did you decide to adapt Coetzee’s novel "In the Heart of the Country" ? It’s the story of a woman told by a man. That surprised and fascinated me because he describes her by standing back from her body and her feelings. Filming a neurotic and sick woman didn’t necessarily interest me. I was […]
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Déclaration d’intentions du réalisateur Au départ de cette “Vie de Famille”, il y avait l’envie de montrer un père qui aurait été insuffisant, un peu absent, et qui se dirait qu’il est peut-être encore temps pour lui de faire quelque chose pour ne pas tout perdre de sa fille. Un père qui pourrait y croire […]
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PUSHING THE LIMITS is a film but is it also a concept and a way of life ? Extreme sport is a state of mind and the notion of going beyond your own limits has become more important than proving something to someone. The idea of "pushing the limits" is above all humility. It’s a […]
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In my lifetime, I have frequented all kinds of men and women in some very strange worlds, including that of gambling. Paul, the hero of L’Affaire is the amalgam of several people whom I have met. He has the appearance of "X", the psychological make-up of "Y" and the inner rift of "Z" for nowhere […]
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19 June 2015
Why did you want to place a romantic idyll in the heart of the First World War ? For at least two reasons: the first, for purely structural reasons, was to place this love story in the context of dramatic events likely to transcend their passion through contrast, between the morbidity of a context that […]
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19 June 2015
I met Catherine Breillat while she was casting the film. In the end, there were three of us left and Catherine had us read the screenplay in its entirety. Even if I found a few elements of myself in it, the character wasn’t really me. Anaïs is a little girl who doesn’t really want to […]
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Following the publication of her first novel, L’homme facile, in 1968, a libertine novel (banned to readers under the age of 18) that caused a sensation through the boldness of its subject and the crudeness of its vocabulary, Catherine Breillat has continued to work as a writer, filmmaker and screenwriter. Between 1968 and 1975, she […]
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19 June 2015
What made you want to make this film ? Above all, for a long time, I had wanted to make films. When I started to consider this idea a little more seriously, I came up with a number of projects and this is the one that attracted the most attention. I don’t know if it’s […]
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Raconté sur le ton de l’ironie perverse par un apprenti dragueur repenti, "Confession d’un dragueur" met en scène, à travers la drague et les femmes, la collision de deux mondes : – celui d’un étudiant timide, livresque et passablement lâche, mais destiné à trouver sa place en haut de l’échelle sociale; – et celui d’un […]
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What was your first contact with the story and the character of Lucie ? I immediately wanted to be part of this story, to be one of the little "fairies" that Jallel would meet on his path. I was touched by the humanity, joy and humour that are given off by the story, the way […]
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