INTERVIEW – At 87, the director ofA Man and a Woman releases a new film and a book of interviews. And the Cinémathèque in Paris is devoting a retrospective to him. Interview with an eternal optimist who remains as amazed as when he started out.
It’s a landing of its own. General Lelouch arrives with his army, in other words: a new film, a retrospective at the Cinémathèque and a luxurious collection of interviews with two cutting-edge journalists, which took twenty years to complete and is the best book on cinema since the Hitchcock-Truffaut of prestigious memory. At 87, the director ofA Man and a Woman retains the faith and enthusiasm of a young man.
Anything but blasé, he has filmed the Tour de France and the Olympics, destroyed a copy of one of his first feature-length films, managed to slip Lino Ventura in bed with a lady, slapped a journalist and professes that “ love is the only religion in the world with more practitioners than believers “. Meet a complete athlete of the seventh art.
LE FIGARO. – You said that Finally would be your last film. It’s true ?
CLAUDE LELOUCH. – No, because it made me want to go a little further…
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