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. Meeting with an eternal optimist who remains as amazed as when he started.
It’s a landing in itself. 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 required twenty years of work and which is the best cinema book since Hitchcock -Truffaut of prestigious memory. At 87, the director ofA man and a woman keep the faith and enthusiasm of a young man.
Anything but jaded, he filmed the Tour de France and the Olympics, destroyed a copy of one of his first feature films, managed to slip Lino Ventura into bed with a lady, slapped a journalist and professed that « love is the only religion in the world with more practitioners than believers ». Meeting with a complete athlete of the seventh art.
LE FIGARO. – You said that Eventually would be your last film. It’s true ?
CLAUDE LELOUCH. – No, because it made me really want to go a little further…
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