At 87 years old, Claude Lelouch is one of the most prolific directors of his generation. Since October 31, his last film, Cinema is better than life is projected in dark rooms. In an interview given to La Tribune Sunday This November 10, the filmmaker who is married to Valérie Perrin, returned to his former relationship with the late actress Annie Girardot.
At the moment of the birth of their lovethe two artists are already a couple and married. Thus, Claude Lelouch and Annie Girardot make the decision to keep this relationship quiet: “Because she was bride and me too! It was very complicated, but our story remains a sublime memory.”he explains.
Claude Lelouch looks back on his extramarital relationship with Annie Girardot
Claude Lelouch easily admits to having had several romantic relationships outside of his marriages. “We are faithful until we find something better”, he confides. Moreover, in his book Those yearsthe director had described his relationship with the actress as “a forbidden and intense love”.
“It was magical. She was the first mature woman I met. This story was intense and disheveled. We loved each other madly between two doors, between two planes, between two hotels. We curled up in transgression the most accomplished”he wrote. The filmmaker also specified that he had never been “single for a second of all [sa]
vie”. “It was always the women who came to get me, I never needed to flirt.”
His astonishing vision of love
Thus, Claude Lelouch describes women as “successful men” and likes so “take charge” those he carries in his heart. “All women like to be looked at. You can see how much trouble they go to.
So if a man looks at them, it doesn't hurt anyone.”
A vision which is not at all unanimous in France. But Claude Lelouch doesn't care.
For him, what matters is the love of others, unconditional, and without taking into account the opinions of others. An ode to love without limits or borders which has certainly provoked a few relationships among readers of La Tribune Sunday.
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